Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
After recently making a batch of low jars, I was tempted to create another that’s even lower and wider, and this is what I came up with. My main concern is the fine rim of the body section warping. I hope it’ll hold, and normally the wadded-up lid that’s placed in-situ as it fires is enough to keep it round, yet when scaling things up, or down in this case? There’s always the inevitability of things going wrong.
All in all, it was easier to put together than I thought. The throwing of the two halves sort of felt like throwing two plates, so my second concern is the vessel warping or moving as it dries out to bone dry before the biscuit firing can be done. Thus, the box has been drying beneath plastic for a week or so, unwrapped daily and allowed to breathe before being smothered again.
I’m not sure which colour to glaze this, white, black, pale-green, blue perhaps? With so many new buckets of glaze in the workshop I’m having a much harder time deciding how to coat the pots I make.
#jar #pottery #tutorial #studiopottery #contemporaryceramics #box #craft
After recently making a batch of low jars, I was tempted to create another that’s even lower and wider, and this is what I came up with. My main concern is the fine rim of the body section warping. I hope it’ll hold, and normally the wadded-up lid that’s placed in-situ as it fires is enough to keep it round, yet when scaling things up, or down in this case? There’s always the inevitability of things going wrong.
All in all, it was easier to put together than I thought. The throwing of the two halves sort of felt like throwing two plates, so my second concern is the vessel warping or moving as it dries out to bone dry before the biscuit firing can be done. Thus, the box has been drying beneath plastic for a week or so, unwrapped daily and allowed to breathe before being smothered again.
I’m not sure which colour to glaze this, white, black, pale-green, blue perhaps? With so many new buckets of glaze in the workshop I’m having a much harder time deciding how to coat the pots I make.
#jar #pottery #tutorial #studiopottery #contemporaryceramics #box #craft
