05/04/2024
Bishop Odo from our #1066 collection as you’ve never seen him before. This is a critically important but hidden stage of our process making Swipe for more pics.
The Bishop is one of our most complex figures to produce as he’s made using multiple moulds and the head, plus legs, an arm and various accoutrements are painstakingly added separately to the main structure, work shown here by the ever skillful in our
This is incredibly delicate work that requires deft handling whilst “sticking” the individual pieces onto the body of the figure.
Our Dad used to say that clay has a memory so if you don’t follow the exact process or manhandle the figure while you’re adding each piece, it will all show up after the final firing. Even if it looks like you’ve been forgiven after the first firing to the stage it may yet emerge when you’ve done all the painting and fired it again 😕 Any tension whether from throwing or is part of the piece - for good or ill!
For those who may be interested … Bishop Odo was William The Conqueror’s half brother, Earl of Kent and the man thought most likely to have commissioned the
The decorator demonstrating our in later pics is the amazing
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