Weaving+stoneware

I love the way handwoven fabric brings out details in my ceramics. So here comes a big set of photos, with my plates posing on the wonderful textiles by Marie-Noel Giraudon from Atelier Tissage & Tradition (Chilly-Mazarin, France).

Ceramics and weaving

These photos are from the sales exhibition at the Atelier Tissage & Tradition. Marie-Noel, the weaver, makes the most wonderful shawls, tablecloths, bed spreads, hats and such, all handwoven in her workshop in Chilly-Mazarin, France.


This is a silk scarf:

Stripes

Some bowls, cups and and jugs...

A botanical array

Yet more platters with leaf prints, and I'm starting to get a hang of it. Made with ready bought engobe and transparent glaze for porcelain.

My love for green leaves

"Green leaves was my delight,

Green leaves was my heart of gold,

And who but my lovely green leaves..."

For baking

My first foray into baking dishes. Two small baking dishes for 2 persons, thrown from special clay for alimentary use, but I haven't tested them yet in the oven.

Leaf prints

I've started a new series of plates and platters, and I'm testing leaf imprinting, highlighted with faience engobe.


Just transparent glaze and black slip:

These are geranium leaves that grow in our pottery workshop

Other people's pots and stuff

We do buy from other potters, actually I can't grasp how you can copy someone else's ceramics. It's just technically impossible. Someone else's hands, clay, glaze and firing, this combination is so unique each time, that I have trouble reproducing even my own creations. So when I see pottery I like, of course I buy it.
Plates by Martine and Claude NOREK:


Salt shakers in form of pears and tomatoes and dainty saucers by Jean-Marie DELAHAYE (Villaines-sous-Malicorne):



And a family of mugs by Marie-Paule VERPLANKEN: