[Clayart] Cookie cutters and commercial stamps

[vincepitelka at gmail.com]

And in response to this welcome message, please David Hendley's excellent article about "handmade" on my website.  
- Vince

Vince Pitelka
Potter, Writer, Teacher
Chapel Hill, NC
vincepitelka at gmail.com 
www.vincepitelka.com 
https://chathamartistsguild.org/ 

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From: Clayart <clayart-bounces at lists.clayartforum.com> On Behalf Of Lis via Clayart
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2024 4:14 PM
To: clayart at lists.clayartforum.com
Cc: Lis <lis.allison at primus.ca>
Subject: Re: [Clayart] Cookie cutters and commercial stamps

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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