Safety – handmade plate

Description

These ‘biscuit plates’ were created and designed by us on realising that such a thing did not exist – a plate just the right size for a mid morning snack or to accompany a cuppa for a loved visitor.

Each one is adorned with a word or two from Chris’s poetry, highlighted by a sketch and some colour. This one has the words ‘make me a cave within your arms and deep within I’ll burrow’ and is accompanied with soft lines indicating being held within.

The plates are 10cm diameter.

How we make our biscuit plates

The clay is rolled out first and left to dry a little before being cut into circles. Each circle is then decorating by adding words, stamped in letter by letter, and a little sketch using a sharp stick. Michaela loves to doodle, and lets her imagination go with what the words have inspired, putting in the drawings and the the circle is placed on a wooden mould and shaped to make a small plate with a little edge.

Once dry and fired, more colour is added – underglaze is used to pick out the lettering and the lines, and then a dash of colour is added more underglazes, bringing the image to life. Each plate is then glazed with a clear glaze making it washable and food safe. Each one is unique and special – no two plates are the same.

The plaque is then fired again, so each one has gone through a long process of making. We inject everything we make with love!

These biscuit plates are always a source of good chat when we do fairs – how many biscuits if you build a tower, which is your favourite biscuit, why has no-one invented biscuit plates before… Add a bit of variety to your own house or gift-giving by choosing one of these delights!