So since I've been at the studio a lot, I like to make useful things and one thing I wanted to make was a snake hide. So the first snake hide is finally done.
It's made from lowfire earthenware clay, with added glaze only in the decorative lines. It is not glazed otherwise. This is finished pottery and can be washed just like other pottery.
This first one is about the right size for a BP hatchling but I am working on other larger ones with different decorations. I'd love to hear what people think. Like it? Don't like it? Think something should be different?
Restrictions that I have already put out there for other people who have seen it, it CAN NOT be glazed all over because that would make it stick to the kiln shelf during firing. Usually bowls are glazed all over EXCEPT for the bottom rim they sit on, but for this, leaving that unglazed would be a unglazed top on the hide, so I just left this one as-is.
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