[Clayart] Cookie cutters and commercial stamps

[Lis]

One other thing that really bothers me is pre-printed underglaze 
transfers. So you slip-cast a mug using a purchased mold, and cover it 
with purchased underglaze designs.... and call it hand-made??? I'm 
seeing that all over the place.

Lis

On 2024-10-26 1:47 p.m., Carolyn Curran via Clayart wrote:
> I guess the internet and other almost instant forms of communication have
> increased the number of.people who try their hand at marketing pottery
> while using someone else's motif on a cookie cutter and someone else's
> design done with a purchased stamp or roller.  The availability of
> inexpensive microwave kilns and mini potter's wheels is also a factor in
> the abundance of  what I might call simple  bread and butter items found at
> many craft shows.   Yeah,  I  myself have used  "boughten" cookie cutters
> for ornaments and so have many other clay artists,  but all of a sudden I
> am seeing a TON  of these  look alike ornaments appearing on Ebay and Etsy
> and at shows.   I may be a clay snob,  but I bristle  when someone  shows
> me a "mass produceable" ornament or other small doodad  they have purchased
> at a craft show and compares it   favorably with a truly individual item.
> I don't begrudge them their inexpensive Christma tree decoration, but it's
> getting so that  the general public is beginning to think  of these items
> as examples of  creative craftsmanship.  They may be "handcrafted", but
> most of them are not examples of creativity  but of simple copy work.  Did
> ancient potters think this way when the potter's wheel came on the scene?
> And how about commercial glazes or other supplies  that are not made from
> scratch?  Plaster molds?  Laser cut  designs and 3D printers?   Thoughts
> from Carolyn, the potter currently. without studio
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Elisabeth Allison
Treasurer, Carp Farmers' Market Association
Pottery website: www.pine-ridge.ca