Hearth Mug
Thrown mug with a pulled handle
$42
Autumn firing · 31 pieces in the shop
Cups shaped by hand, finished by fire.
Wheel-thrown stoneware from a one-room studio in Hudson, New York. Turn the mug, try a glaze, take one home.
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The making · scroll to fire it
From wet clay to fired glaze
Stoneware is wedged to drive out the air, then pulled up on the wheel. Raw clay is soft, grey and damp, and about twelve percent larger than it will end up.
Room temperature · 1 day
Dried bone-dry for a week, then fired to 960°C. The clay turns pale and porous: strong enough to handle, thirsty enough to take glaze.
960°C · 10 hours
Dipped in a slurry of ash, feldspar and iron. Wet glaze looks like chalk. The colour you chose is hiding in there.
Dipped · 3 seconds
Cone 10 in reduction. Glass forms, colour wakes, and the piece shrinks to its final size. We open the kiln two days later.
1,260°C · 14 hours
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Notes from the studio
Three ingredients and a lot of patience
- Clay
- A speckled stoneware from a pit in Ohio. It throws smooth, fires dense and shows iron freckles through the thin glazes.
- Glaze
- Mixed in-house from wood ash we collect from a neighbour's sugar shack, local feldspar and a little iron or cobalt.
- Fire
- One gas kiln, fired to cone 10 about twice a month. Anything that warps, pinholes or crawls is ground down and recycled.
Pour something slow.
Every piece is one of a kind, and the next firing is only two weeks away.
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