Dan Palmer
@danpalmerceramics.bsky.social
My first attempt at making a tea bowl with inclusions of feldspar in the clay. It doesn't make throwing easy!
There's shino glaze inside the bowl, and a mineral wash and sprinkles of wood ash outside. I think I am pretty close to the wood-fired look (but in a gas kiln).
#ceramics #pottery
There's shino glaze inside the bowl, and a mineral wash and sprinkles of wood ash outside. I think I am pretty close to the wood-fired look (but in a gas kiln).
#ceramics #pottery
November 19, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The large moon jar I showed when still wet clay is fired and I couldn't be happier.
It's got a nice shino glaze and sifted wood ash over the shoulders that have produced green drips like you can get in a wood firing.
It's up on my Etsy now. Sadly I still can't sell to the US.
#ceramics #pottery
It's got a nice shino glaze and sifted wood ash over the shoulders that have produced green drips like you can get in a wood firing.
It's up on my Etsy now. Sadly I still can't sell to the US.
#ceramics #pottery
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I had a really good gas firing last night. I lucked out with maybe the last mild evening of the year. Winter is coming...
Here's one of my recent agate ware tea bowls (thrown with layers of different clays) covered in a wood ash glaze. You can just make out the clay beneath.
#ceramics #pottery
Here's one of my recent agate ware tea bowls (thrown with layers of different clays) covered in a wood ash glaze. You can just make out the clay beneath.
#ceramics #pottery
November 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Just had to cancel a pottery order to the US because a) Trump did away with the tariff exemption on small items, b) my post office is not shipping to the US because of the tariffs, and c) the US is apparently destroying packages at customs.
What a f*cked up situation.
#pottery #ceramics #art
What a f*cked up situation.
#pottery #ceramics #art
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The finished pottery paddle I made on my CNC machine today.
I need to file the handle a bit more round. But it's pretty nice.
#ceramics #pottery #cnc #woodworking
I need to file the handle a bit more round. But it's pretty nice.
#ceramics #pottery #cnc #woodworking
October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The finished pottery paddle I made on my CNC machine today.
I need to file the handle a bit more round. But it's pretty nice.
#ceramics #pottery #cnc #woodworking
I need to file the handle a bit more round. But it's pretty nice.
#ceramics #pottery #cnc #woodworking
Today I have been making a pottery paddle with the CNC machine I bought for just this purpose 2 years ago!
These are used to imprint a pattern on the outside of pots by giving them a slap with the paddle.
www.instagram.com/p/DPq-dRMjOO1/
#ceramics #pottery #potterytools #cnc #woodworking
These are used to imprint a pattern on the outside of pots by giving them a slap with the paddle.
www.instagram.com/p/DPq-dRMjOO1/
#ceramics #pottery #potterytools #cnc #woodworking
danpalmerceramics on Instagram: "I bought this CNC mill two years ago to do just this. I'm making a pottery paddle with which to decorate pots. You give the clay a …"
I bought this CNC mill two years ago to do just this. I'm making a pottery paddle with which to decorate pots. You give the clay a slap and the pattern is imprinted.The CNC can easily do things that would be very hard with hand tools.I'm also loving my name for this potential product! 😄#pottery #ceramics #cnc #potterytools #woodworking
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October 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today I have been making a pottery paddle with the CNC machine I bought for just this purpose 2 years ago!
These are used to imprint a pattern on the outside of pots by giving them a slap with the paddle.
www.instagram.com/p/DPq-dRMjOO1/
#ceramics #pottery #potterytools #cnc #woodworking
These are used to imprint a pattern on the outside of pots by giving them a slap with the paddle.
www.instagram.com/p/DPq-dRMjOO1/
#ceramics #pottery #potterytools #cnc #woodworking
A rutile blue yunomi tea cup that got a bit oxidised on one side. It's still pretty.
No blue pigments are used in this glaze.
Due to chemical/optical magic, rutile (a titanium-rich mineral) forms blue in the presence of iron.
#ceramics #pottery #keramik #keramika #poterie #yunomi #tea
No blue pigments are used in this glaze.
Due to chemical/optical magic, rutile (a titanium-rich mineral) forms blue in the presence of iron.
#ceramics #pottery #keramik #keramika #poterie #yunomi #tea
September 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A tea bowl for matcha or whichever beverage you most enjoy. Inspired by Japanese chawans. Shino glazed/reduction fired.
I love making these because you have full permission to throw the idea of symmetrical perfection out of the window. (Not the tea bowl, though!)
#pottery #ceramics #tea #chawan
I love making these because you have full permission to throw the idea of symmetrical perfection out of the window. (Not the tea bowl, though!)
#pottery #ceramics #tea #chawan
September 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
It's hard to get electric oxidation glaze effects that I love as a gas reduction firer. But sometimes I get something that is close. This is an ash-based glaze over an iron tenmoku fired to cone 6.
Varying the thickness of the top layer makes quite a big difference (1st pic was thinner).
#ceramics
Varying the thickness of the top layer makes quite a big difference (1st pic was thinner).
#ceramics
September 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
It's hard to get electric oxidation glaze effects that I love as a gas reduction firer. But sometimes I get something that is close. This is an ash-based glaze over an iron tenmoku fired to cone 6.
Varying the thickness of the top layer makes quite a big difference (1st pic was thinner).
#ceramics
Varying the thickness of the top layer makes quite a big difference (1st pic was thinner).
#ceramics
Etsy AI be like:
Let me rewrite your item titles so they make absolutely no sense.
Let me rewrite your item titles so they make absolutely no sense.
September 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Etsy AI be like:
Let me rewrite your item titles so they make absolutely no sense.
Let me rewrite your item titles so they make absolutely no sense.
Reposted by Dan Palmer
Tyelenol?! What about nanoplastics?????.
"...researchers found that, on average, a liter of bottled water included about 240,000 tiny pieces of plastic. About 90% of these plastic fragments were nanoplastics."
"...researchers found that, on average, a liter of bottled water included about 240,000 tiny pieces of plastic. About 90% of these plastic fragments were nanoplastics."
Plastic particles in bottled water
Researchers developed an imaging technique that detected thousands of tiny bits of plastic in common single-use bottles of water.
www.nih.gov
September 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Tyelenol?! What about nanoplastics?????.
"...researchers found that, on average, a liter of bottled water included about 240,000 tiny pieces of plastic. About 90% of these plastic fragments were nanoplastics."
"...researchers found that, on average, a liter of bottled water included about 240,000 tiny pieces of plastic. About 90% of these plastic fragments were nanoplastics."
The second of my faux wood fire bottles from the last gas firing.
Again I sieved dry wood ash from my stove over the top and shoulder, and fired it in reduction to 1300C.
It's over my regular shino glaze that gives creamy white to rusty red.
#ceramics #pottery #shinoglaze
Again I sieved dry wood ash from my stove over the top and shoulder, and fired it in reduction to 1300C.
It's over my regular shino glaze that gives creamy white to rusty red.
#ceramics #pottery #shinoglaze
September 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The second of my faux wood fire bottles from the last gas firing.
Again I sieved dry wood ash from my stove over the top and shoulder, and fired it in reduction to 1300C.
It's over my regular shino glaze that gives creamy white to rusty red.
#ceramics #pottery #shinoglaze
Again I sieved dry wood ash from my stove over the top and shoulder, and fired it in reduction to 1300C.
It's over my regular shino glaze that gives creamy white to rusty red.
#ceramics #pottery #shinoglaze
Bit of a wild one from last night's gas firing. But it looks wood fired, right?
It's shino glaze on groggy black clay with wood ash sifted heavily over the top. The ash melts into a glaze at the very high temperatures.
Cone ten/1300C
#pottery #poterie #ceramics #keramika #keramik #ashglaze
It's shino glaze on groggy black clay with wood ash sifted heavily over the top. The ash melts into a glaze at the very high temperatures.
Cone ten/1300C
#pottery #poterie #ceramics #keramika #keramik #ashglaze
September 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The US tariffs have almost killed my Etsy store. Traffic is way down, as are sales. I cannot even ship to the US.
To try and get things moving, I've dropped my prices - now dead cheap for hand-thrown, unique, reduction-fired pottery.
Maybe you'd like to have a look.
www.etsy.com/shop/DanPalm...
To try and get things moving, I've dropped my prices - now dead cheap for hand-thrown, unique, reduction-fired pottery.
Maybe you'd like to have a look.
www.etsy.com/shop/DanPalm...
September 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The US tariffs have almost killed my Etsy store. Traffic is way down, as are sales. I cannot even ship to the US.
To try and get things moving, I've dropped my prices - now dead cheap for hand-thrown, unique, reduction-fired pottery.
Maybe you'd like to have a look.
www.etsy.com/shop/DanPalm...
To try and get things moving, I've dropped my prices - now dead cheap for hand-thrown, unique, reduction-fired pottery.
Maybe you'd like to have a look.
www.etsy.com/shop/DanPalm...
I haven't really been making pots for the summer because Trump's tariffs pretty much killed my Etsy store. And I thought what's the point. But now, I'm just making because I want to!
Here's a nice loose 4lb bottle vase and some pouring bowls I threw today.
#ceramics
Here's a nice loose 4lb bottle vase and some pouring bowls I threw today.
#ceramics
September 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I haven't really been making pots for the summer because Trump's tariffs pretty much killed my Etsy store. And I thought what's the point. But now, I'm just making because I want to!
Here's a nice loose 4lb bottle vase and some pouring bowls I threw today.
#ceramics
Here's a nice loose 4lb bottle vase and some pouring bowls I threw today.
#ceramics
I'm currently in Dalmatia for a holiday, and have been awed by the large and spectacular crickets you can see if you head out into nature.
Plus they are often sitting on some interesting plant I've never seen before.
I live in Zagreb but it's another world here.
#insects #Croatia #wildlife
Plus they are often sitting on some interesting plant I've never seen before.
I live in Zagreb but it's another world here.
#insects #Croatia #wildlife
August 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
An amazing storm cloud at sunset in Zagreb a few nights ago
June 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
An amazing storm cloud at sunset in Zagreb a few nights ago