Earl Brunner on sun 6 feb 00
Neriage is about all I've heard the technique called as well. That is what
Robin Hopper calls it in his work. There is a glass term that is some times
used called millefiore. Jane Peiser uses this term to discribe her work. It
is very similar.
Aiko Ichimura wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi all,
>
> I have a favor to ask anyone who are familiar with marbling clay techniques
> to take a look at this URL and tell me what you call this technique of using
> layers
> of different colored clay.
>
> The wife of the potter whose works are displayed in this URL gave me
> a permission to post this question to the Clayart List Serve.
> Unfortunately the site is only in Japanese but you can see numerous example
> of his technique. He calls it Neriage style in Japanese. The patterns are
> not painted
> but each colors are from colored clay.
>
> http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~konton/2pagegallery.htm
>
> I thank you for your generosity to share your knowledge with me & the
> Japanese
> List Servers.
>
> Aiko Ichimura
> aikop@erols.com
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Earl Brunner
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mailto:bruec@anv.net
Vince Pitelka on mon 7 feb 00
> Neriage is about all I've heard the technique called as well. That is what
>Robin Hopper calls it in his work. There is a glass term that is some times
>used called millefiore. Jane Peiser uses this term to discribe her work. It
>is very similar.
Neriage is the Japanese technique where the entire piece is made from
patterned colored clay, with colored patterns shoing both inside and out.
According to some, Nerikomi involves marbleized techniques, either on
handbuilt or thrown forms. This is the only distinction I have been able to
find. Altogether too often the two terms are used carelessly as if they
both mean the same thing.
In contrast to neriage, many American colored clay artists create work where
patterned colored clay effects are laminated onto thrown or handbuilt wares,
and this is not neriage. It is perhaps best called "clay murini."
It is true that Jane Peiser used the term "millefiore" to refer to her
wonderful work, but she should have known better. She got the idea for her
work through her husband (glassblower Mark Peiser) from Dick Marquis, who
introduced the American art-glass world to a lot of Venetian glass
techniques, including murini. Millefiori is one specific murini technique,
where the result looks like "thousand flowers", which is what millefiori
means. So, unless the colored clay work looks specifically like "a thousand
flowers," a more accurate term for colored clay techniques that use
patterned loaf construction is "colored clay murini."
Sorry to be a stickler about terminology, but it is my fate.
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Home - vpitelka@DeKalb.net
615/597-5376
Work - wpitelka@tntech.edu
615/597-6801 ext. 111, fax 615/597-6803
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Tennessee Technological University
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