Pottery Technique for Ribbon Edged Ceramic Bowls

I wanted to share a little technique with you guys. It's a real simple little thing. If you've seen me open my kilns, you've seen some of these porcelain bowls come out with this neat little ribbon on the edge, which just looks so pretty. There's one right there. This one is honey flux times three with ancient jasper on the rim. Here's another one here, a little bit different style, just a little bit shallower and not quite as wide on each little groove, but this one was honey flux on the outside. We got some textured turquoise on the inside, textured turquoise on the rim, and then we put just a little bit of albany slip brown on top of that textured turquoise to get that. You get a real good look at that. These are really pretty, give some real character to your bowls, and it's a real simple easy thing to do, and I just thought I would share it with you today so you can maybe give it a shot. To say this bowl is about ten and a half inches wide. Let's see, yeah, right at a little over ten and a half inches here, it's about five inches deep, so it's a nice big bowl, and what I'm doing is I just take a handle like this and I start going around it and just putting these grooves in it, and I'm hoping you can see that, get my hand out of the way, and that's all I'm doing is just going back and forth on these until you go all the way around, and that quickly and easily turns into this nice little ribbon that gives you this great little finished bowl in the end, and those are gorgeous it's easy. This is leather hard. She's pretty stiff. I threw this yesterday afternoon. It's been about 24 hours. I've had it inside of a plastic bag that was kind of open so it lets it dry really slowly. I had a family coffee this morning that I went to and came back and checked it and it's like, yeah, it's about right, so you can, and then you can come around and you get just a little bit of an edge on here, but it's still wet enough you can take a finger and kind of go around, smooth it out. By the time you get your glazes all on it and they run, it just kind of takes that edge off. I've had a few of these that I can't get them out of the studio before they're sold because people see them online and want to come get them, and I put them in my little shop, and they usually don't last more than a few days before they're out of there. They're pretty, it takes, like I say, it takes a little bit of time going around one at a time like that, but it's very therapeutic for me and it's very relaxing to do, so give it a shot. This is porcelain. You can do it with stoneware. You can do it with any clay you're using, and, excuse me, it's ragweed season here in Arkansas, and I'm paying the price as I do every year, especially when it's 100 degrees out and the pollen counts are up to 10 and 11. It's just, it's dangerous here, but you can use a trim tool. You can use something like that. You can use a paintbrush. Oh my gosh, there's so many things. I mean, you know, if you want it to be smaller or wider, get a chopstick. Anything that you want to try and make that little edge, put a little angle on it, and just go all the way around that thing, and it turns out really nice. So, again, thanks for watching Healing Earth Ceramics. Please like and subscribe. Check out my glaze videos. I think you'll like them.