Israeli designer Rachel Boxnboim has cast a ceramic tea service inside fabric moulds. Called Alice, the pieces retain the texture and seams of the fabric from which they were formed. Boxnboim pours the liquid clay into stitched moulds and gradually syringes it out again, leaving a thick layer clinging to the inside of the fabric.

Stockholm-based ceramicist Caroline Harrius (previously) embroiders vases with floral patterns that explore the relationships between gender and craft and decoration and purpose. Distorting perceptions, the delicate pieces appear as though Harrius wrapped stitched fibers around a glazed vessel, or in a parallel manner, sculpted fabric to mimic a curved form. Harrius punctures the shiny, semi-functionalContinue reading "Melding Two Crafts, Caroline Harrius Embroiders Ceramic Vessels"

I was part of the BCB Festival 2011 within the FRESH exhibition at Spode Factory in Stoke on Trent.

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Fabric cup

Following on from my first test piece with fabric and porcelain slip I looked for materials at home with texture that I could cast with porc...