How To Decorate with Mishima

The Mishima name may be 17th century, but the style itself goes back to Korea's Koryo Period (935-1392) when bowls decorated in this way were known as Korai-jawan or Korai tea bowls. These were inlaid with various motifs such as floral and animal depictions. A potter would incise the design in the body, fill it in with contrasting colored clay or slip and then cover it with a transparent glaze.

As you can imagine, over the centuries some potters have developed their own styles and techniques for decorating using Mishima.  This is a  video of my technique.  It may not be the best way but it works for me.  I use this technique on functional pots like my dragon mugs and the tea pots you see here as well as on some horse hair raku pieces


I hope you enjoy the video

When you're done watching the video (and leaving comments if you'd like, thanks) head over to Mudcolony to see what some other potters are doing.

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