Wine Cup Sugar
If we always give our best and everything without expecting anything, we will always get everything.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Many of my favourite sayings and quotes are woven into my website, and I feel this beautiful quote by Thich Nath Hanh fits quite well with my handthrown wine cups with their loving and playful drawings.
Symbolically, wine has become a sign for culture and represents peace and prosperity. Peace and prosperity combined with tenderness and love is an epitome of perfection, and a cosy evening with a glass of wine in the presence of your loved one is certainly a nice reward at the end of a long working day.
Making wine cups with the help of the potter’s wheel is very time-consuming and can take several days, as the bowl and the base of the cup are turned independently of each other.
After the drying process and when both parts are leather-hard, the bowl is placed upside down on the potter’s wheel and “trimmed off” using a special trimming tool so that the outside of the bowl also gets a round, beautiful shape. Now the base of the cup, which has been thrown upside down on the potter’s wheel, is attached to the bottom of the bowl with the help of clay slip by first roughening the surfaces. Finally, the wine cup is once again turned upside down on the potter’s wheel and the connection between the base and the bowl is refined using the trimming tool. The next step is the decoration of the wine cup with engobe and glaze.
After such an elaborate work process, one certainly deserves a cosy evening with candlelight and wine!