Thread, Clay, and Memories

bee mix clay with free hand sgraffito decoration on top of hand made doily (scheme from Japanese magazine)

Crochet is what I am doing while resting... I got this passion from my mother who used to knit on her knitting machine and crocheting through the nights.  I still  remember her patiently crocheting little doilies with tiny metal hook, reading the schemes from German and Japanese magazine.
No wonder I have this love in my system too, and lately I have got into that Doilies- Mania as well, especially after I realized how beautiful it looks with my pottery decoration, and understanding its source...

stoneware white clay with freehand sgraffito on top of hand made crochet doily

amazing to find out how my sgraffito decoration rooted in my "crochet-memory"

white stoneware plate with free hand sgraffito decoration on top of hand made  pineapple crochet doily

brown clay with free hand sgraffito, and colored hand made doilies 

brown clay with free hand sgraffito decoration on top of little yellow cotton  hand made doilies

one of a kind little vase, free hand sgraffito decoration on top of cotton hand made doily

little stoneware bowls with sgraffito leaves decoration on top of hand made doily

Spring colors

sgraffito carving on white stoneware

these are all relatively large bowls and plates, this one is about 30cm diameter.

sgraffito, 38cm

this is the one i like best, its colors are amazingly emerge from one to the other in beautiful range of hues.

I am really happy with the results of this kiln.

It was such a pleasure to open the kiln and find all these pots shining out like gems

(not forgetting the way they were decorated with one broken finger)

they're all made of light brown clay,  decorated with colored slip, and were cut in sgraffito style.

These days, a new series of large bowls is getting its decoration, with new variations of 3 different 

rainbow like hues, sgraffito as well.

Do we really need 5 fingers?

work must goes on

trying to work with broken right finger