Another of the biggies that Doug has made. They take hours of slip trailing to decorate them! So much surface to explore.

07.02.2025 23:11 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Doug's been making big pots, I've been trailing miles of slip! I lost count at 850 ish dots.

29.01.2025 21:19 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We got our power back this evening, remarkable considering the vast amounts of damage from the storm. Huge thanks to all those working hard to reconnect folk. It's been a bonus, sitting by the fire reading by candlelight.
The stars have been phenomenal!
#darkskies #storméowyn #candlelight #slowdays

26.01.2025 22:21 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Repair Shop on the Road - Series 1: Dumfries and Galloway - A Book for Lockerbie The team help commemorate the victims of the Lockerbie bombing, new automata expert Michael tackles a clockwork train, and Kirsten gets hands-on with medieval slipware pottery.

Well @fitchandmcandrew.bsky.social Hannah and I were on the telly this evening, demonstrating slipware techniques on the Repair Shop. It wasn't too bad.

The section about Lockerbie was very moving, I remember it very well

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

20.01.2025 23:53 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

On the telly tonight apparently.

20.01.2025 15:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@theslipwareman.bsky.social has his hands on the trailer for #therepairshop

08.01.2025 12:49 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Four big pots completed, ready to deliver to Kirkcudbright Galleries later this week, much relief from Hannah @fitchandmcandrew.bsky.social and myself

06.01.2025 19:52 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Lovely fun in the snow with the wee ones yesterday. Not a bad end to the school holidays.

06.01.2025 10:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

These are for an exhibition at Kirkcudbright Galleries later this month. Our first event of 2025.

05.01.2025 10:31 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We're making pots for Kirkcudbright Galleries exhibition at the moment.

21.12.2024 23:55 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Late night working with @fitchandmcandrew.bsky.social, making collaborative big pots that represent the four seasons with Galloway flowers, for an upcoming exhibition in January.

20.12.2024 01:13 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is a tall, slab built vase made by Hannah @fitchandmcandrew.bsky.social and a moneybox I made, topped with small birds and a cuckoo whistle, inspired by antique versions that were made in the country potteries of Britain for centuries

23.11.2024 22:14 — 👍 22    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

We've had Border News filming in the workshop today. Our two little ones, Pippin and Fred, make sgraffito decorated brooches, which they sell to raise funds for the local food bank. Last year, they raised £851. This year, they're on course to beat that total, bless them ❤️

21.11.2024 20:30 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

We had a visit today from Adrian from the amazing Northern Kilns. He fitted a new lid to the kiln that Hannah @fitchandmcandrew.bsky.social bought from them twenty years ago. It's been brilliant, and the new lid should last another twenty, even if I don't!

19.11.2024 20:20 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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