pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on wed 9 may 07
Hi Thomas,
Just for fun...
Not to horn in on Vince's question...but...
In this case, the resultant combinant 'whole' items are 'Hand Made', from
various non-hand-made Slip Cast parts.
We do rather need to think of these things particularly...as each example
can or will have disinctions from other examples.
The items themselves which are resulting of the process of Slip Casting are
not considered to be 'Hand Made', even if subsequent wholes made from
assembleges of them, may be, in the sense of their being fitted and
assembled 'by hand'.
I recall nothing ambiguous from Vince about this.
One can assemble a bunch of any non-hand-made things, and then say that the
assembly is 'Hand Made'.
Most of these confusions seem to result for lack of particular details about
final or resultant items in question...and or what processes all tolled
figured into their being made.
Probably my little 'Toshiba' Computer is as 'Hand Made' as a great many so
called 'art' or 'craft' items are, since it too is at least mostly hand
assembled, and, from non-hand-made-parts...albeit to some quite decided
sceme which allows little variance.
I think what matters most, is that we have some idea of how things are made,
and some ability to informedly evaluate what we are looking at or hearing
about in this and other lights...and
to stop worrying about vaguerys or emotional import of the phrase 'Hand
Made', since in almost
all instances of it being used to qualify something casually, the
qualification is
either bogus, or immaterial, uninformed, confused, or a casual and
figurative allusion to only some aspects of the thing's actual manner of
being made.
Best wishes,
Phil
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Malone"
> Hello Vince. You may not consider slip cast items to be hand made, nor
> perhaps to have much artistic merit but to suggest that > laborer could be trained to do that part of the process> is to severely
> belittle the skill that is frequently needed by the process. I am not a
> production operative, but I have known many and I have spent many years on
> factories. Did you know that some production operatives, of different
> disciplines, have followed apprenticeships that lasted years?
>
> Also to suggest > take one complex mold off the original> Did you know that some of the
> figurines made famous by Royal Doulton and Royal Worcester are made from
> up
> to 70 different slip cast sections. To assembly these to give a single
> article requires considerable care and skill. And the biscuit firing stage
> alone is something to be seen as a very complex system of props is needed.
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