[Clayart] Cookie cutters and commercial stamps

[Cyndy Littleton]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024, 8:37 PM Vince Pitelka via Clayart <
clayart at lists.clayartforum.com> wrote:

> 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/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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> Elisabeth Allison
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