[Sca-cooks] Update on my pottery serving and cookware project

Elaine Koogler kiridono at gmail.com
Mon May 5 11:03:17 PDT 2008


Are you making this stuff for your own personal use, or are you planning to
sell it?

Kiri (who'd love to see pictures of what you're doing!!)

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Dragon <dragon at crimson-dragon.com> wrote:

> As many of you know, I am learning to make pottery and am exploring the
> manufacture of dishes and cookware that would be appropriate for SCA use in
> a period kitchen. This weekend was particularly productive.
>
> So I've been working like a mad man over the last couple months on getting
> a bunch of pottery pieces done. I've made the chafing dish that I mentioned
> before on this list along with a large variety of bowls, a couple of
> crocks/urns, a few cups, a pot with lid, some small spice jars, and even a
> skillet. Most of this stuff got bisque fired on Saturday and now I am in the
> process of glazing it. Hopefully I will have most if not all of this stuff
> done by the end of the month.
>
> Unfortunately, my little nutmeg grater experiment got broken. One of my
> cats decided to play with it and it got smashed while it was still green
> ware. I have yet to make another but I will do so soon.
>
> And then I spent the weekend making the "Dragon Flagon". It's a large
> pitcher sculpted to look like a somewhat comical dragon. The tail serves as
> the handle and the contents of the pitcher will pour through the mouth. It's
> quite impressive and I am very pleased with it, I used a very dark brown
> clay for this that fires almost black. I am planning to leave parts of it
> unglazed to let the clay show through. This particular piece was inspired by
> actual period aquamaniles and pitchers that were sculpted to look like a
> variety of figures like lions, griffons, knights on horseback, etc.
>
> I'll be taking some photos of these works in progress and putting them up
> on my web site probably some time this week. I'll post a link to them when I
> do that.
>
>
> Dragon
>
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