Handle pottery

It is refreshing to revisit old ideas. Mugs with a handle design from a few years back. #mugshotmonday

Chris Penny Ceramics on Instagram: "Pulling handles is about knowing when to stop, when to have wet hands and when to have dry hands, and how dry the cup needs to be. It’s all about practice. I think you can get pretty comfortable applying handles in about 3 years … sorry not years I mean weeks 😂… actually it doesn’t take as long as you think. If you keep the starting lump the same each time. And attach as many handles as you can to cups you are making … say 4 handles per cup, then recycle…

Pottery Illustrated: Mug Shapes and Handles

Freshly carved, the handle whittled after spending a few days beneath plastic wraps, slowly drying, the soft handle acclimatising to the firmer body of the cup. I don’t carve every handled vessel I make, but sometimes, a little work goes a long way, and in this case, it helped to perfect the curve on the underside greatly, especially how it interacts with ledge on the top join. This cups ‘crispness’ will also soften rather a lot once glazed, the glaze melts, filling the sharper corners…

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andrettapottery on Instagram: "Have you ever seen handle making on the wheel? Well today I was demonstrating how to make handles on the wheel to students and this is how it went."

How to Make Interesting Mug Handles: I have been throwing pots for over 20 years, and have particularly enjoyed making mugs of all different styles and sizes. I was taught a method of making handles that spoke to me-easier and quicker than pulling handles, and offering a great deal of …

The prospect of pulling handles used to fill me with dread. My carefully turned pots ruined by sloppy, graceless protrusions that didn’t hold up as I’d usually over-pulled them. One day, when studying on the DCCI pottery course, we were issued with the daunting challenge of pulling a whole series of handles of different lengths and styles. The finished straps would need to be carefully laid out onto a ware board that was covered in drawn dimensions, targets we had to fill. Beyond length…

3,666 likes, 103 comments - naturalelementspottery on October 10, 2021: "Handles for mugs. This is one way to make coil handles for hand built mugs. I use a couple of different techniques to make handles and will post the other option soon. Thanks for following along! pottery_lovers #clayvideos #potteryvideo #potteryvideos #pottery_videos #ceramicsvideos #clay #ceramics #pottery #crafts #craft #potterylove #handbuilding #handbuiltceramics #handbuiltpottery #slabbuiltceramics #slabbuilding…