The origins of chattering is unclear, but it is thought that it is a technique that was discovered accidentally, when a metal turning tool began to jump on the pottery surface, giving it a regular pattern.
Chattering is a decorative technique where a flexible metal tool is allowed to jump across the surface of a leatherhard piece of pottery, making regular ditch like depressions on the surface.
The tools which potters originally made, where from the soft strap iron used to bind boxes, were literally called planes.
We always called those metal straps spring steel.
Depending on the speed that the pottery was turning and the way the tool was held, a regular pattern would evolve.
Potters use a white body clay, covered with a dark slip or engobe.
When the flexible metal trimming tool is held onto the turning pot, it will skip across the surface, digging into it in a sgrafitto manner, revealing the lighter body beneath.
In sometimes a white slip is used over a darker body, in which case the chattered decoration appears as dark marks on a white background. Chattering is a technique that is still practiced today by individual potters and they usually make their own chattering tool.
A fail safe method is making the hoop tool from the spring steel of an old clock spring, bent in the reverse direction to which they were wound.
These also have the advantage of being of very high quality steel, which in effect sharpens itself against the clay, so they get better with use.
Chatter marks will form successfully, as long as the pot is not too wet or dry.
Once you have your chatter marks on your pottery, pick out a glaze color that you like and put three coats on.
Make sure that your piece is completely dry and fire the pottery.
To check if your piece is dry, touch it to your cheek and if it feels warm, it is dry enough to fire.
If you just want the natural looks of your pottery, glaze with a clear glaze.
You can be robbed of what you have, but not of what you are.
Chattering is a decorative technique where a flexible metal tool is allowed to jump across the surface of a leatherhard piece of pottery, making regular ditch like depressions on the surface.
The tools which potters originally made, where from the soft strap iron used to bind boxes, were literally called planes.
We always called those metal straps spring steel.
Depending on the speed that the pottery was turning and the way the tool was held, a regular pattern would evolve.
Potters use a white body clay, covered with a dark slip or engobe.
When the flexible metal trimming tool is held onto the turning pot, it will skip across the surface, digging into it in a sgrafitto manner, revealing the lighter body beneath.
In sometimes a white slip is used over a darker body, in which case the chattered decoration appears as dark marks on a white background. Chattering is a technique that is still practiced today by individual potters and they usually make their own chattering tool.
A fail safe method is making the hoop tool from the spring steel of an old clock spring, bent in the reverse direction to which they were wound.
These also have the advantage of being of very high quality steel, which in effect sharpens itself against the clay, so they get better with use.
Chatter marks will form successfully, as long as the pot is not too wet or dry.
Once you have your chatter marks on your pottery, pick out a glaze color that you like and put three coats on.
Make sure that your piece is completely dry and fire the pottery.
To check if your piece is dry, touch it to your cheek and if it feels warm, it is dry enough to fire.
If you just want the natural looks of your pottery, glaze with a clear glaze.
You can be robbed of what you have, but not of what you are.
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