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I always try to tell people that the process is far more satisfying than the final product. I often find myself mesmerized by somethig I've done thousands of times before.
I'll try to make more videos to share some of it with you all
Thanks to @vestang for the camera skills!
We’ve been saving up broken pieces for the past year and painstakingly mending them back together with gold using the traditional Japanese art (and philosophy really) of Kintsugi.
Like the most beautiful things in life, they've been through a journey and been left broken, seemingly irreparable. Rather than trying to hide the fact that they've been through some tough times, we highlight the mended crack and draw attention to it. It's our failures fuck ups and flaws that make us truly beautiful.
We've got a good collection of them available at this weekend's Mother's Day Makers Market @makerscentralny
Saturday 10-5
Sunday 10-4
84 Central ave Tarrytown NY
100% recycled clay. All the scraps, trimmings, broken pieces and rejects get put through a laborious and time consuming process to turn them back into usable clay.
It's beautifully imperfect.
Because we use many different clay bodies in our work, the reclaim clay is a mix of them all, so it gets some incredible marbling, speckling, and uncontrollable inconsistency. That's what makes it so special.
I've made a lot of very cool one of a kind pieces with it, which will be available in person only at this weekend's Mother's Day Makers Market at @makerscentralny We'll be hosting 20 other incredible makers inside of our big Tarrytown warehouse, so bring the whole family and make a day of it!
To stay in the whole turning trash into treasure theme, we also pulled out our pile of broken pieces and painstakingly repaired them using the ancient Japanese technique of Kintsugi. Because we should all be a bit more proud of our flaws and imperfections.
Doors open Saturday morning at 10am sharp
Don't forget to bring your reusable bags!
Saturday 10-5 & Sunday 10-4
84 Central ave Tarrytown NY
Hand carved latè cups. Made from 100% recycled clay.
Available this weekend at the Spring Makers Market @makerscentralny
Saturday 10-5 & Sunday 10-4
84 Central ave Tarrytown NY
Limited edition vases
100% recycled clay
Available at this weekend's market @makerscentralny
Sat 10-5, Sun 10-6
84 Central ave
Tarrytown NY
Stay tuned to see the finished products
I've made some very special limited edition reclaim pieces for this weekend's market.
There is a certain amount of waste produced during the making of our pieces- Trimmings, throwing slop, broken pieces, etc.
It's quite a laborious and time consuming process to turn it back into usable clay. Honestly it would be much cheaper to just buy new clay, but i can't bring myself to throw it out. So, over the years we've accumulated tons(literal tons) of this scrap clay. Once processed, we call it 'Reclaim'. We'll use it for spacific orders from time to time, but the issue is that since it's a mixture of 3-4 different clay bodies, it's very unpredictable and has a ton of variation.
This can be frustrating if we need perfection and consistency, but if we're willing to relinquish some control, it can be surprisingly beautiful.
Over the past few weeks we've been making a pretty sizeable dent in our stock of reclaim clay.
Over the next few days I'll post some of the pieces we've been making.
They'll be available exclusively at our market this weekend.
Saturday 10-5 & Sunday 10-4
84 Central ave Tarrytown NY
As usual doors open at 10am sharp.
Get here early for first dibs
Please be patient and kind to your fellow shoppers, and don't forget to bring your reusable bags!
New ideas often sprout from failure.
For me, creativity has a lot to do with finding opportunity in the unintended. When something doesn’t turn out quite right, the natural inclination is to smash it into a ball, re-wedge it, and start over again. It’s clay after all, you can do that an infinite amount of times. But if I can broaden my perspective away from the initial intended goal, something that is technically a mistake, can be the spark of something brand new- oftentimes something far better than what I originally was trying to make.
We do not, under any circumstances, advise the dropping of our coffee mugs out of a moving vehicle (tractor or otherwise), onto asphalt.
We've been bartering potatoes for coffee mugs with the farmers at @stonebarns during their holiday markets the past few years. I love me a good barter, and I happen to be a big fan of potatoes, so...
They've built up a nice collection of mugs
Apparently though, they don't need any more mugs. Bad news for me, cause I've eaten all my potatoes
@herm__bart
