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Well, this is adorable. About 15,000 years ago, someone decided to start making clay beads to make something pretty. Not baked, but sun-dried, and it was such a hit people kept making them.
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Hot out of the kiln: Serpentine Hanukkah menorah. This is the first menorah make of 2026. I really like how this turned out with the blue and red underglaze transfer. The red area is for the shamash candle. And I'm thrilled that the candles fit into my weirdo candleholders that I made from the clay holes.
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It took me forever to post the #glaze test results, but here they are! It's hard to see due to the harsh shadows, but I'm particularly pleased with the one in the upper right hand corner with warm 60s/MCM tones.
Here are more photos of the three of these (#SelfPromo): https://morinopottery.etsy.com/listing/4600300587/color-wheels-ceramic-jewelry-dish-tiny
I've made more of these little dishes to test a bunch more glaze combinations for a little project I'm hatching. 😈 🐣
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KQED: Too Many Bots in the Kitchen? Williams Sonoma Bans AI Shoppers. “San Francisco-based Williams Sonoma and Pottery Barn sent emails to customers this week, updating terms of service to bar customer AI agents from shopping on their websites without the company’s written permission.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/10/21/kqed-too-many-bots-in-the-kitchen-williams-sonoma-bans-ai-shoppers/ -
Four thousand seven hundred years ago, people drowned trying to transport goat cheese and wine across the Mediterranean. The pottery survived the civilization. Nobody got their cheese.
https://www.koco.com/article/worlds-oldest-shipwreck-coast-of-turkey/74145063 -
It's almost time for the little village to come into the house for the winter, but it's so fun to come home and see it under the blueberry bushes on my walk to the back door.
The houses were made by Ripple Pottery in Rumney, NH. The other accessories are from a local garden center.
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New issue: The Arch-I-Scan Project: Artificial Intelligence & other approaches to ceramic identification & analyses in the Greek & Roman worlds edited by P.M. Allison, I.Y. Tyukin, E.M. Mirkes, D.P van Helden, Z. Zheng and T.A. Tyukina
https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.74
Issue 74 presents the project team contributions as well as papers presented at the project colloquium 'Artificial Intelligence and Pottery Identification and Analyses' held at Leicester in 2023.
The project related digital archive of images and models used to train the Arch-I-Scan Project's AI machine is available via the
Archaeology Data Service https://doi.org/10.5284/1138130 -
This is a legacy of one of my 'enthusiasms'. It is a type of everyday porcelain known as ironware. This example is a breakfast tea cup and saucer — the popularity of the designs resulted in a bewildering variety of product variations, down to a honey jar and toast rack. This pattern is called Fruit Basket and was sold mostly from the 1940's to the 1960's.
It was made in Staffordshire, England by Mason, alongside what was then a vast pottery complex.
I must get into the habit of using the items I have, rather than storing them.
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As an incorrigible contrarian, I wanted to photograph something for #TextureTuesday that’s not a tree bark, rusty metal or lichen on rock. 😜 I was also feeling lazy. So I took a bunch of photos of a furoshiki (a Japanese wrap-anything cloth) that we use to transform my work desk into our breakfast table.
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