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  1. Received the 2 ft / 600 mm long ceramics tubes from the factory. They are amazing! The thinnest is 2 mm outer diameter and has two 0.25 mm channels for the thermocouple wire. Perfectly straight, if you look straight in the hole you can see the back table.

    Used with type K or type C thermocouple wire to make some temperature sensors for the 2500 deg F to 3500 deg F range

    #ceramics #industrialceramics #thermocouple

  2. I did an interview with VoyageTampa that went live a couple of days ago. I talk about my journey with clay beginning in 2013 and included some hopeful tidbits for artists beginning their careers including how to access lessons for free and how to build a lasting base of collectors.

    My apologies—the article is ad pop-up city. I use Kagi and it wouldn’t load so I had to view it in a different browser.

    voyagetampa.com/interview/dail

    #art #artist #ceramics #ArtBiz #clay #pottery #Florida #Tampa

  3. Today was a glaze day. These are already glazed & currently in the kiln.

    Fingers crossed!

    #ceramics

  4. No, I'm not refusing to believe summer is over, really. In my neck of the woods, the farmers market bounty still screams SUMMER!

    Made a Japanese fusion salad with ripe tomato, peach and corn, with shiso leaves and slivers of ginger, plus good vinegar, EVOO, salt & pepper. Served in a stoneware bowl I made with three glazes in a pinwheel pattern - not that you can see much of it. 😜

    #food #pottery #ceramics #vegetarian #JapaneseFood

  5. I hope that showing my test tiles—including those strange, unexpected, sometimes undesirable results—gives you a window into what it takes to produce a piece like this that turns out just as intended.

    Each section of the surface began as a test tile that I may have had to tweak or troubleshoot. The form and details required evolution over time. And from here, the work continues to grow and change. I wonder what the pots I’ll be making in another decade will look like?
    #pottery #ceramics

  6. A Bronze Age kiln in the Saudi desert made bichrome pottery for over a millennium. New chemical and petrographic work traces its exports to Timna and Tell el-Kheleifeh, and asks if it counts as an early brand.

    #Archaeology #BronzeAge #Ceramics anthropology.net/p/a-bronze-ag

  7. I made a gallon of porcelain slip yesterday and today a gallon of terra cotta slip with one pound of kaolin and nine pounds of redart. Lesson learned? Don't touch the wet redart for any reason! The manufacturer's spec sheet says it's messy and oh my God what an understatement! It sure is pretty, though!

    #Ceramics #Pottery #SlipCasting #RedArt #Porcelain #SlipMixing

  8. RE: tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/1170260

    As a ceramicist - these are beyond exquisite, and 100% works of art.
    It's the kind of thing that as a maker, you're just...damn. That's on a whole 'nother level.
    #porcelain #ceramics #ceramicist #modernceramics

  9. I recently changed my kiln elements for the first time (the first time I've done it myself, not the first time it's been done). It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be, although it was irritating and fussy and took about two hours. It's the difference between $80 for new elements and $380 for the elements and $300 for labor.

    And also the sense of self-sufficiency. I've changed the thermocouple before and the relay is snap-in and that's all the parts that need to be replaced regularly so I think now I can maintain it on my own. Next step in kiln-nerdity would be winding my own coils, but that's on a whole different level and takes a kind of precision that I'm not necessarily capable of.

    #Kilns #Ceramics #Pottery

  10. Here's the model I used for the mold. It's a plastic pencil holder. The shrinkage was over 18%. Also a picture of the mold itself. You can see ghosts of the colored slip trails I splashed around in it before filling it with casting slip. Casting plaster is really an amazing thing!

    4/3 (really the end)

    #ceramics #Pottery #Slipcasting #Porcelain

  11. These are so thin that they're translucent at cone 10, which is something I never thought I'd be able to do!

    Now I'm on to the next phase, which involves sprigs and very tiny pieces of glass melted onto various parts of the outside. More news when I have it!

    3/3

    #ceramics #Pottery #Slipcasting #Porcelain

  12. I made press molds from some Czech glass buttons I had laying around and used those to decorate the bottom handle attachments. These are a little blurry, but so are the originals.

    2/

    #ceramics #Pottery #Slipcasting #Porcelain #CzechGlass

  13. A couple years ago I had a vision of a porcelain mug but it was far beyond my skills at the time. At the beginning of this summer I finally felt like it was within my grasp so I started learning the necessary skills. Slipcasting was the most complex but two months in I feel like I'm good enough at that to move to the next phase. Here are a couple of slipcast mugs I finished yesterday as proof of concept. The decoration isn't what I ultimately want, but it's beautiful in itself and I thought I'd share.

    1/

    #ceramics #Pottery #Slipcasting #Porcelain

  14. This is a six inch cotton doily that I saturated with porcelain slip and draped inside a bowl to shape it. I then fired it as usual and the cotton burned out, leaving an actual porcelain basket.

    Somebody sent me an Instagram showing this technique and I immediately said "no way that could work!" But I was wrong-- it totally worked and it feels like a miracle! I haven't decided whether to glaze it or not.

    #Pottery #Ceramics #Porcelain #Crochet

  15. Another nerikomi experiment, this time a lil snek. I colored the porcelain myself -- the yellow is a Mason stain. The green is that same yellow with a touch of cobalt oxide. I'm not sure where the dark spots came from but I'm guessing they're due to tiny lumps of cobalt that I didn't mix in thoroughly. The red eyes are porcelain slip colored with a little bit of Mason stain.

    This piece was inspired by a version of Henry My Son by Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie that I listened to obsessively as a kid. The song is a humourous American reworking of the Child ballad Lord Randall.

    youtube.com/watch?v=ugA3WDbY9Kg

    #Ceramics #Pottery #Snakes #Nerikomi #Porcelain #PeteSeeger #ArloGuthrie #HenryMySon #LordRandall #GreenAndYellow

  16. "Garden Visit"
    Teableau for 04/14/26

    Bunnies visit my yards, but not nearly as abundantly as they did before the neighbor next door got an outdoor cat.

    #Tea #Bunnies #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #VintageChina #Spring #Springtime #Handmade #Sewing #Painting #Ceramics #TerraCotta #Figurines #Rabbits #Daffodils #WhiteTea #StashTeas

  17. #SolarPunkSundayMusings...

    So, in contemplating my own vision of a #SolarPunk community, there are some *jobs* that imho are crucial to running any type of close-knit community /society...

    1. People trained in #FirstAid / #MedicalArts -- for both humans and non-humans
    2. #Plumbers
    3. #Carpenters
    4. #Masons
    5. #Blacksmiths / #Metalworkers
    6. #Architects / #Planners
    7. #Foresters / #Foragers
    8. #Gardeners / #Farmers / #FoodProducers
    9. #Menders / #Cobblers / #Clothiers / #Seamsters / #Tailors
    10. #Chemists / #Alchemists
    11. #Herbalists / #Compounders
    12. #CitizenScientists / #Observers
    13. #Potters / #Ceramics experts
    14. #Computer / #Technology fixers (especially #electrical and #solar)
    15. #Mothers / #Caregivers
    16. #Teachers / #Librarians
    17. #Cooks
    18. #Cleaners
    19. #Weavers / #Spinners / #FiberArtists

    Other suggestions?

    #SolarPunkSunday

  18. Inside a #Singapore dragon kiln where temperatures go up to 1,300°C | Nestled in an industrial estate in the western part of Singapore is an 84-year-old dragon kiln, the oldest & the only operational dragon kiln in the country channelnewsasia.com/today/phot #pottery #ceramics #kilns

  19. This lovely Taiwanese white tea (Pre-Qingming Red Jade T-18 Curled White Tea from Taiwan Tea Crafts) and sakura daifuku from Natural Japaneats made such a pretty and yummy combination 😋

    :white_tea: 🌸 More notes: pillowfort.social/posts/399219

    #tea #ceramics #teaware #TaiwaneseTea #WhiteTea #TeaTime #daifuku #food