SIX PIERCED TRACERY BOWLS

     Challenging myself to make six matching bowls with pierced tracery.   I love to pierce and have made several bowls with pierced designs along their rims but never feel comfortable using them because I feel like the food is going to slip out the piercing.   

Duh.   A rim is what I need, to separate the food from the openings in the design. 
 
So I made six [matching?] bowls:

 

 

They match better than I've ever done before, don't look too closely.   I used the yellow Mud Tools rib to form the inside curve, a trick which I've never done before.   

 

After getting them trimmed and pierced I set them to dry:

 

 



 

Because the rims were much thinner than the base and body I had to wrap the rims to keep them from drying faster.

 

 

 

Finally I could unwrap them and clean up the piercings.   What was I thinking!?  Eight shapes per bowl, six bowls, 48 little paisleys!   eeegads.

 

 

 

These will look pretty much like this when finished because I plan to glaze them with white.

 

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Thanks for visiting,  ttfn

Finished, they are glazed with Coyote Clays white and a touch of Sedona Sunset on the rims.