Lucille Oka Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 ‘Reasons Why Vessels Break’ from Living with Pottery: by John W. Arthur Here is an interesting list of the Gamo potters of Ethiopia with reasons why their pots break. It is disaster filled fun reading. Cooking Dropping Firing the vessel Hitting a stone Pouring beer into the pot Use for a long time Falling from storage area Dog stepping on vessel Broke bringing home from the market Making butter Picked up with one hand and it broke Cooking with salt Store milk and just broke Drilling in two holes for a bee house Sitting on vessel Child threw a stone Hit potters leg and broke Storing beer Hitting with a stick Hit on another pot Cleaning the interior When someone was pounding the crops in the wooden grinder Continuous use Cow broke while drinking water Broke during wedding ceremony By moving pot Bought broke Cracked during production Not to make light of anyone's disaster but how were any of your vessels broken unexpectedly. You can be as sad as you want or as funny as you want. Tell your broke pot tale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Electric Cat Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 I don't have a broke pot story, but I hereby nominate this as definitely the best post of the week, if not the month (It's only the sixth of October)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeye Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 I am such a klutz I am always breaking stuff! My worst recent one was a tea pot that turned out amazing, I am very critical of every single piece I do and I was so proud of this one, every single piece, spout, handle, lid, shape of the pot, everything looked so perfect to me. I finished getting it together and was trying to remove the bat off the wheel and my fingers slipped off the edge and I pretty much punched right through the piece with my fingers.. what can you do but laugh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pres Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 ‘Reasons Why Vessels Break’ from Living with Pottery: by John W. Arthur Here is an interesting list of the Gamo potters of Ethiopia with reasons why their pots break. It is disaster filled fun reading. Cooking Dropping Firing the vessel Hitting a stone Pouring beer into the pot Use for a long time Falling from storage area Dog stepping on vessel Broke bringing home from the market Making butter Picked up with one hand and it broke Cooking with salt Store milk and just broke Drilling in two holes for a bee house Sitting on vessel Child threw a stone Hit potters leg and broke Storing beer Hitting with a stick Hit on another pot Cleaning the interior When someone was pounding the crops in the wooden grinder Continuous use Cow broke while drinking water Broke during wedding ceremony By moving pot Bought broke Cracked during production Not to make light of anyone's disaster but how were any of your vessels broken unexpectedly. You can be as sad as you want or as funny as you want. Tell your broke pot tale. Ethiopians would not have this one- Froze in wet stage, and froze while in use outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucille Oka Posted October 8, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 Here's one of my broke pot experiences- I was in a rush. I had completed decorating 3 large greenware bowls all the same size but each decorated differently and intricately it took several hours to do. I stacked them within each other for a bisque fire. As I placed them in the kiln the weight of the two top vessels broke the one on the bottom the upper one broke the middle one and the top one fell into the bottom two. All three broken vessels sat on the shelf for a few moments before I took out the pieces and cleaned out the kiln. I looked at them and waited for my lesson and knew I could never be hasty again if, I wanted to have successful firings. That was twenty one years ago. I no longer rush for anything or anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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