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Pretend my hair is less messy. Thank you. |
I just got a new bowl. Oh my goodness. It's so lovely. When you can't touch handmade ceramics ahead of time you can't really ...
know them. As soon as I picked this up out of the box I knew I wanted to live with it for a long time.
Marie Nagy of
Kilnmaster Pottery made it. I know from chatting with her that she often uses a technique called soda firing, which is responsible for the gorgeous luster inside this beast.
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luster |
May I also add: packing ceramics is probably also an art, at least when you do it as well as she does. And yes, I looked it up: some of the soda involved is soda ash, just like you use for affixing dye to fabric with fiber reactive dyes.
*sings "It's a small world"*