Incense holder or incense stick holder pip01

It is a piece with a delicate and difficult design when it comes to making it on the potter's wheel. It is turned with a special technique to make it in one piece. It is a small work of high craftsmanship, of elaborate and careful design in all its details.

This piece is made of stoneware, like the cups, mugs and tumblers of different sizes, and the stoneware bowls, plates, etc. All made to be used with food found in this store. Porcelain with a normal thickness walls and stoneware are the materials used to manufacture the restaurant and home tableware. That makes them food safe, microwave and dishwasher safe, and resistant to sudden temperature changes. There are other pieces like porcelain bowls or salad bowls that also share these characteristics. The interior has a glaze formulated to properly blend with the paste of the piece. So no cracking should form.

Porcelain is a harder material than stoneware, although it is more delicate to work with. It allows to make thinner walls and can be translucent. This makes it perfect for special pieces and lamps and not so much for everyday use ware as those of stoneware or porcelain with normal thickness walls.

There are also decorative pieces and others with mixed techniques in which I use other non-ceramic materials.

I prepare myself the glazes with high quality raw materials. They have balanced formulas so that they melt properly on the piece in the final firing. In the kiln the glazes melt and mix creating unique and unrepeatable effects. Thus they are transformed into colored glass, they become in an inert material that does not be altered with the acids of some foods.