Wood Fired Slip Textured Mugs with Woo Blue Glaze
Wood Fired Slip Textured Mugs with Woo Blue Glaze
These handcrafted textured pottery mugs will bring some natural beauty to your morning cup! The hand-pulled handles are generous, and the wood fired surface is gorgeous. Holding 11-12 ounces (depending on which mug you choose), these unique wheel thrown cups are an ideal size for daily use.
Details
Mug Style A stands about 4.75 inches tall, and measures 3 inches across the lip. This mug easily holds 12 ounces.
Mug Style B stands about 4.5 inches tall, and measures 3 inches across the lip. This mug is slightly smaller, it holds 10 ounces easily, 11 ounces when completely full.
All of my pottery is microwave and dishwasher safe.
The interior of the mug is glazed in a golden tan glaze, and the rim and top few inches is glazed in woo blue. The wood fire atmosphere creates gorgeous color variations in these glazes, particularly where the 2 glazes overlap, just inside the rim.
Use
Perfect for your morning coffee or afternoon tea. The slip textured body, wood fired stoneware surface, and generous handle make these mugs comfortable to hold and a joy to use. These mugs also feature a narrowed neck that will help keep the heat inside your cup.
This listing is for one mug, but if you’d like to enjoy them both as a pair, you can use code MUGPAIR at checkout to receive $4 off two mugs.
Process
These mugs were made with BMix clay on my potter's wheel. A brown slip (a blend of water, clay and iron) was applied to the bottom section of the mug while it was still wet on the wheel. To create the texture, a ragged brush was drug through the wet slip as the cup slowly spun on the wheel.
This piece was fired in a wood-burning kiln at Desert Dragon Pottery Studio in North Phoenix. Unlike electric or gas kilns, wood firing relies entirely on burning wood to build heat and atmosphere inside the kiln. As the kiln is stoked, flame, ash, and minerals from the burning wood move naturally around the pottery, creating organic surface markings, flashing, and subtle color transitions that cannot be replicated through glazing alone.
The kiln used is a fast-fire wood kiln that reaches temperature in approximately 12 hours. The dynamic nature of wood firing means each piece responds differently to its placement within the kiln, resulting in truly one-of-a-kind works that capture the spontaneity and beauty of the firing process.