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Horsehair pot, March 2007
Wheel Thrown White Stoneware Burnished While Leatherhard Applied Terra Sig to a bone dry pot and polished with plastic Bisque fired to ^08 Pulled out while hot on second firing and added hair, feathers and sugar. I know, I know. ANOTHER horsehair pot???? I was trying to get this done for the gallery in my art center that has been bugging me for pieces and horse hair pots always seem to go over well, so I knew it would be a quick firing to get something to them. Unfortunately this one got some hair line cracks so I won't be able to sell it or put it in the gallery.  I just pulled this out of the kiln a few hours ago. This is my first time to use Terra Sig on a horsehair pot. The results were amazing! The pot is uber white and has a nice sheen to it. I wish the pictures turned out better, but it's the best I can do with inside light at midnight. Terra Sig is my new best friend! EDIT Changed picture to professional photograph Photograph by Harrison Evans This pot is not for sale due to some cracks from the firing process. If you would like for me to make one for you similar to it, please send me a note. |
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I think horsehair pottery is the most dreamy looking of all. Sometimes it even tops my affection for copper luster/unglazed carbon black in raku. I never heard of the sugar and feathers tho (where have I been?). I like that the sugar speckles are sparse and concentrated in areas. I am undecided about the feathers. One minute I love them. The next, I am rather indifferent. (this makes me the perfect customer becasue I will buy both if I cannot decide lol). They certainly do show up beautifully.
I have yet to make one of these although it's been on my list for ten years. I finally bought some horsetail hair at a weaving show a few years ago. My problem has been that the slip I have available is to be applied at leather hard stage and I never remember until it's bone dry. The other problem is that I think the technique looks best on a certain family of wheel thrown shapes which I just cannot produce.
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Horsehair typicall works best on round forms, or forms with a shoulder. Even if you can't make one of those on a wheel, I KNOW that you are capable of hand building it. If you can't remember the slip, just try burnishing the pot with the back of a plastic spoon right after you trim your pot (if you threw it), or just wrap the pot in plastic until you have time to get back to it. Even if you don't get your pot burnished, give this technique a shot. It's so much fun!
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