Review of the plates so far

Second big decorating night - Clephanton Farm plate

Second big decorating night - Pillars of Hercules plate

These QR codes weren't working, so we scratched them off.

Second big decorating night - Reekies Garage plate

First big decorating night - Pittormie Farm plate

This post shows how the QR codes are printed onto the plate, using the laser cut foam stamps.

First big decorating night - Pillars of Hercules plate

First big decorating night - Crail Beach plate

First big decorating night - Clephanton Farm

First big decorating night - Clentrie Farm plate

First big decorating night - general scenes

The pressure is on to decorate these plates so that we can get them delivered on time, so there is a long night ahead of us...

Printing and drawing the QR codes

Slipping Reekies Garage plates

Slipping Crail clay plates

Clentrie Farm plate decoration progress

This little shard was found in the field where we dug the clay. It's inclusion in the plate tells the story of our clay digging, but it also makes you wonder who once owned the piece and how did it get here. It makes you think of the cycle of life too, where even fired clay goes back to the earth. Our soil not only feed us, but can throw up our history too.

Decorating

Christine has started to decorate some of the plates...

This is how the white clay slip is applied to the leather hard plate. The white clay is a ball clay from Devon. It is very difficult to find white clay in Scotland, though we are trying. The white clay is used to provide a contrast, so that we are able to draw through it with our designs.

Christine decorating a Pillars of Hercules plate

Decorating plate rims

This is where Christine starts to work her magic...

Slipping the rims of Pillars of Hercules plates

The rims of our plates are to have the name of the clay source written on them. We paint a white clay (ball clay, from Devon) on first then the writing will be scratched through to reveal the dark clay again. This is called sgraffito.