Handmade Dishes

Handmade deep bowls, flat and large plates

The difficulties of creating handmade plates

Just sculpting an original plate, dish or bowl is a real pleasure: they are voluminous, there is room for your hands to roam both in texture and in the process (like pizza dough). The risks appear precisely at the drying stage, when the products are already molded, but not ready for firing due to the high water content. The main problem with drying handmade plates, and handmade ceramics in general, is that during drying it dries out and decreases in size. In the case of a plate, panel or even tile, the product has a large flatness, which can warp and usually curve when drying, if you don’t do everything perfectly, or you’re just unlucky* Therefore, we dry our products very slowly and cover them with various methods to stop the curvature.

The exclusivity of our handmade plates

Handmade is definitely not a story about uniformity. Even if we do not talk about the fact that on each product our expensive German effect glazes are revealed differently, then we should at least say about the texture and the shape itself: each product, although made by the same hands, was in a different mood, the owner of these hands was playing different music and the temperature was different in the workshop… So, even if our designer plates may be of the same model, they will definitely differ from each other as two brothers, like us: Ilya and Anton, differ from each other.

Deep bowl or half bowl?

Depending on what purposes and for whom you are looking for the product. If you plan to order one designer plate as a gift, it is better to take a big bowl so that it can be the anchor on the table, on which the eye stops. You can keep fruit or sweets, or snacks there, because it is the one with the largest size and volume. If you planned to take a set: 2 or 4 products, then you can safely take either the same design or an assortment of different ones, again, so that the plates are a decoration of the table. For us, the main thing is that our handmade ceramics raise the aesthetic level of the interior or the aesthetic level of the feast itself.