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Hey Doc I have a few friends with pots there.

These are not theirs but look slip trailed high fired to me.

My dentist has a few on the wall I can ask her when I get another gold crown next montn

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Hey,

Some colonial potters did something like this with trailing. Their tools was a funnel with several openings to make parallel lines at once. I've seen either a video or read an article, maybe from Colonial Williamsburg.. Not sure anymore.

Try searching colonial trailing pottery decorating techniques, to see what you can find.

 

See ya,

Alabama

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Pretty amazing video. He has only done this a few thousand times.

 

I cannot find much like this searching for "colonial trailing pottery decorating techniques". Would there be some other name for it? I will try making up a multi spout funnel to see if that works.

 

Can you trade pots for gold crowns?

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Hey,

You may want to order the book, Ceramics in America 2001.

Then read Dots, Dashes,and Squiggles: Early English Slipware Technology, by Michelle Erickson and Robert Hunter, pgs 95 - 114. And

 

Slip Decoration in the Age of Industrialization by Donald Carpentier and Jonathan Rickard, pgs 115 - 134 (includes info on mocha tea diffusion techniques)

 

 

Both articles includes a bibliography which should keep you busy for a while..:)

The good kind of busy.

 

Alabama

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hey Larry,

 

Clive Bowen multi nozzle slip trailer here, near the bottom of the page http://discover.goldmarkart.com/10-types-ceramic-decoration/  (totally looks like something you would make)

 

another one here, but it looks kinda awkward, scroll the up arrow to images 29-31 http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/8/Ceramics-in-America-2001/Dots,-Dashes,-and-Squiggles:-Early-English-Slipware-Technology-

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Min

 

Thanks for leads to multi nozzle slip  trailers. I am going to build one soon.

 

On mocha diffusion... I am still experimenting a bit with it. I found that if I do it in my spray booth with a vaporizer pumping steam in to increase the humidity, the surface of the glaze stays damp much longer and I can get much bigger diffusions.

 

I am in the process of throwing 30 simple 10 inch bowls to test glaze application techniques. I am sure that most of them will end up in the trash barrel, but that's the nature of experiments

 

Pottery has too many threads to chase

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Larry my hero in these types have been Canadian potter Robin Hopper. He has a series of really helpful videos that are very helpful. i think snatches from those videos are available on youtube. his main video on surface decoration is called "Making marks". If i am not mistaken it is in fact Robin Hopper who really revived mocha diffusion to make it popular today. he has really played a lot with it trying different techniques - like tobacco and vinegar. 

 

alex matisse from east fork pottery is also very helpful to watch 

 

i've come across quite a few folk techniques of slip design but i have not figured out how they can keep the slip so liquid. i've played with slip a bit - both painting with it and using slip trailing - and wetness of the bowl makes a huge difference. with really wet clay the slip flows very easily, but with leather hard or bone dry the slip gets sucked in super fast. 

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Doc I am not yet spending any time watching ceramic U-tubes it is like a busman's holiday for me so I cannot suggest any on feather combing . But I will show you a bowl from our kitchen that is made in 1984 by a at the time little known potter that lived about a mile from my pottery. Its stoneware and slip feather combed. Its 16 inch diameter and has held up well. His studio at the time was called Railroad Stoneware as he lived next to the tracks.

He has written a book or two and went to grad school later in life and is currently a teacher. His name is Vince Pitelka.

My tip is start looking for feathers of large birds-not on u-tube but outside.

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Doc, if I had to guess, the bowls you ask about might have been done by using not only slips, but slip glazes.  Slip that is close to the body in terms of shrinkage and fired density rarely moves in the way those slips seem to have.  Slip glazes designed to move a little in response to the fire might look very much like what you've posted.

 

For brilliant examples of slip combing and other forms of slip manipulation, Google "English slipware" and "Thomas Toft."

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Well, I don't really know... just guessing.  It might be a combination of slip in the conventional sense, and glazes.  Conventional slip doesn't move much in the firing, and those pieces, to my eye at least, seem to have a lot of movement.  If you look carefully at the work, it appears that on horizontal surfaces, the decorative work (resembling slip work) doesn't seem to move much, but on vertical surfaces it moves quite a lot.  This is how glazes react to firing, but most slip work is as immovable as the surface of the clay.

 

I mention slip glazes (to be used on leather-hard work) because it's a lot easier to get slip to flow on damp pots than to get glaze to flow on bisque.

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