Description
Hand built pottery jugs – for flowers, for milk, for paintbrushes..?
These stoneware jugs are 12cm high and have a 6cm diameter base.
These cute jugs have been a festival favourite for some time, each one being unique, with original poetry and one-off decoration.
Each one is made using the slab-building technique. Once the pieces are cut out and dried a little, a line of poetry is chosen from one of Chris’s books. The jugs are then built and the shape and words allow the imagination to wander and for Michaela to create a simple sketch that brings the words to life.
The jugs have been a challenge for Michaela who is the potter behind their construction. She loves making them – they are the closest thing that seatree make to production pottery, in that the shape and size of each jug is the same. Michaela has developed templates for the slabs of clay that go into each jug, and this means that the making process is much more consistent. The challenge is mostly during the next stage, in which the jugs are air-dried to remove moisture that would otherwise prove disastrous in the kiln. It is during this stage that some of the jugs might crack. In part this is because of Michaela’s previous determination to make jugs from clay that was as white and smooth as possible, but the high failure rate has now forced her to move towards using other clay, so you may find that these jugs vary in base colour while we experiment.
It also means that you can know much love has been poured into the making of each jug.
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