Yarn Bowl/Catch-all with Bonsai Snips: Purple Marble #1
$70.00
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Sized for Worsted weight yarn and smaller.
Specially designed as a yarn bowl to hold your yarn and project and as a Crafter's Catch-all to hold all those treasured tools so they are ready for use or for just gazing upon as you craft away the hours.
This pot comes with 4" Bonsai Snips - designed after a 300 year old design and very sharp - great for crafting!
Marbling... a topic that has been on my "Spend some time on this" list for a wee bit.
A brief study and history of marbling...
It is believed the first evidence of marbling was in the 10th century by the Japanese.
Not too long ago, I did a bit of study and practice in Sumi-e ink and brush work. I noticed reference to Suminagashi which translates to "Floating ink" and refers to when artists would drag their Sumi-e drawings through a water bath of suspended ink to instill a subtle pattern onto their works... and thought... I wanna do that!
Fast forward and gifted a bit of time, I returned to the reference, did some research, all with the focus of possibly developing a new surface technique for pots.
While lost in the ideas of marbling, I learned about other cultures that marbled stuff and all were techniques that also resided on my "Spend some time..." list!
As a very short sub-list of my very big list:
🖌Chinese marbling circ. 14th century Ming Dynasty
🖌Indian marbled papers circ. 15th century
🖌Turkish Ebru (translates to Cloud ink) marbling circ. 15th century
🖌European book binding circ. 16th century
🖌European Agate ware circ. 16th century
My desire is to develop techniques and some level of proficiency for marbling on pottery, fabric, and paper for designs brewing in my creative soul for teaware, tableware, and crafting pots, and perhaps a jump back in time to my garden works.
So, continues my journey in marbling.
Hand-thrown, hand-brushed glaze, and hand-signed using sturdy and functional porcelain clay made in Canada. Each pot is marbled using pigmented clay then hand-brushed with at least 3 coats of clear or pigmented glazing, ensuring a durable finish.
I create in small batches. Each piece is thrown in the likeness of the next, hand-crafted, and with hand-brushed glazing. I hope you’ll agree variations in color, small marks from the minerals and stone in the clay, or slight sways in design resulting from working with natural materials create the charm expected and treasured in handmade pottery.
Dimensions:
- Height: 5" (12.7 cm)
- Top diameter: 4.5" (11.4 cm)
