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scoring applique designs or "sprigging"

updated fri 14 dec 01

 

MartinDEpstein on wed 12 dec 01


I have been sprigging all kinds of designs on pots for several years. I
took a workshop with Linda Sikora and Mathew Metz and Mathew demonstrated=

sprigging. I rent space in a studio where a lot of children's classes
take place and the kids bring in their plastic frogs and flys and snakes
and we make sprig moIds of almost anything. If the pot and the piece to =
be
srigged are both moist, a little water sprayed on both surfaces works wel=
l.
Thanks to Mathew we are sprigging maniacs. =