Liz Willoughby on sat 18 feb 06
I always love when the discussion comes around to the mug or the cup.
People who make mugs have their own personal stamp on them. Potters
who make functional work, make more mugs than any other form. It is
a personal preference, and usually a well thought out preference of
how we make our mugs. I look at the mugs in my kitchen cupboard.
The ones that have no foot, have a wide base, with a nice textured
wire cut on the bottom. The ones with a well trimmed foot are really
a large cup, either tall, or squat, and narrower at the bottom. Mugs
with a wide base would look silly with a foot, and those with a foot
suit the form chosen for that mug. I have favorites of both kinds.
Mine almost always have a foot, they suit the form that I have chosen
for my mugs, but that doesn't mean that I don't have favorites that
have no foot.
We are all different, and so are our mugs. Thank god for that. How
dull would my cupboard be if they were all the same. It really is
all about the form, and what we choose to do with that form, to make
it attractive visually and at the same time being a pleasure to hold,
and to drink from. It is very personal, and if it "works", it is
right.
Being a bit of Meticky Liz again.
--
Liz from Grafton, Ontario, Canada
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are . . . something
to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
Joseph Addison
Patrick Cross on sun 19 feb 06
For a while I made coffee mugs with three feet added to the bottom...some
what like the temporary wads used in wood firing but more refined and
integrated with the bottom edge. As a lark I made a cup like this with
extremely exaggerated feet about 2 1/2" inched tall...sort of like the
beginning stubs attached to a cup before the handle is pulled. Where the
vertical edge of each foot met the bottom edge of the mug an arch began tha=
t
made it's way over the side and back down the adjacent foot. This was a
very eccentric mug. A friend, who I later gave the mug to, said it was lik=
e
the mug had it's own coffee table built in.
Patrick Cross (cone10soda)
On 2/18/06, Liz Willoughby wrote:
>
> I always love when the discussion comes around to the mug or the cup.
> People who make mugs have their own personal stamp on them. Potters
> who make functional work, make more mugs than any other form. It is
> a personal preference, and usually a well thought out preference of
> how we make our mugs. I look at the mugs in my kitchen cupboard.
> The ones that have no foot, have a wide base, with a nice textured
> wire cut on the bottom. The ones with a well trimmed foot are really
> a large cup, either tall, or squat, and narrower at the bottom. Mugs
> with a wide base would look silly with a foot, and those with a foot
> suit the form chosen for that mug. I have favorites of both kinds.
> Mine almost always have a foot, they suit the form that I have chosen
> for my mugs, but that doesn't mean that I don't have favorites that
> have no foot.
> We are all different, and so are our mugs. Thank god for that. How
> dull would my cupboard be if they were all the same. It really is
> all about the form, and what we choose to do with that form, to make
> it attractive visually and at the same time being a pleasure to hold,
> and to drink from. It is very personal, and if it "works", it is
> right.
> Being a bit of Meticky Liz again.
> --
> Liz from Grafton, Ontario, Canada
>
> "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are . . . something
> to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
> Joseph Addison
>
>
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Lee Love on mon 20 feb 06
At my teacher's workshop, I threw mugs off the hump. But I have found that
I can get a better wirecut and termination at the bottom of the mug body by
throwing them off the wheelhead.
I slip the wirecut with contrasting slip on the bottom and then
scrape it. This shows off the wirecut and also makes the bottom smooth,
which is more important with Shigaraki type clay with stones in it. If I
am clumsy and I mess the wirecut up somehow, I then rope impress a swuil
pattern on the bottom of the mug and put inlay there.
--
Lee Love
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