More Nerikomi

Basket Weave Plate

This is the first plate of leftover mason stained clay. I layered slabs of old gold and hazelnut brown with unstained clay and haphazardly rolled cross sections together.

Moon Plate

Okay, it doesn’t actually look like the moon, but it feels spacey. This isn’t technically nerikomi – I took leftover black clay and lightly wedged some unstained clay into it. This plate did warp a bit, but it’s still usable.

Bacon Mugs

I am so pleased with these mugs. The ‘bacon’ series was a risk – instead of using the same clay body stained with different colors, I used two different clay bodies with the same shrinkage. For the record, they’re Laguna B Mix 5 and Laguna Speckled Buff.

The mugs started as this hunk of what I think looks like bacon. I can’t quite remember how I went from the hunk to smaller pieces, but the mugs were formed using the same process as the mug found in this post.

Cracked Plate

Can’t win them all. I knew after the bisque firing that this plate was doomed, but I still went ahead and glazed it. Compression is really important for plates, especially large ones, and I think I just didn’t take enough care in the first stages of making this guy. The smaller plates have been quite successful!

Flowers & Size

And this little flower mug made it. Like a lot of my other nerikomi mugs, this one is just a little too small for my liking. My focus on the next round will be size.

This mug might be a better size, but the handle already feels too small. The colors are Peacock and Chartreuse.

And I did (hopefully) have some success with more flowers…