Recycled Glass Infused Pottery Process

The beginning of a new piece from a lump of clay. The artist enjoys working “off the hump,” creating several pottery pieces in a row. The production line style work is employed for efficiency and consistency.

Paloma Pottery strives to create a unique one-of-a-kind product with uniformity and value to pass on the savings to the customer. "I am frugal, re-use as much as possible and seldom waste ~ allowing me to keep my prices low without sacrificing quality.”

Working off the hump allows for multiple pieces to be created from one single lump of clay. A pottery bowl is created and the lip for the recycled glass rim is being defined with a wooden potters’ tool. Paloma Pottery offers a variety of recycled glass and pottery dinnerware including bowls, sushi dishes, oval plates and platters hand crafted traditionally and also available with a stunning recycled glass rim as a great eco friendly gift.

A ceramic ring holder is born and texture is added to the pottery piece by using a credit card that has been cut with random edges to create an organic look and feel.

Hand building is another way of working with the clay. Where the wheel creates round symmetry, hand building allows for more freedom of shapes to be constructed. Using molds from found objects, edges are lifted for the pottery and glass soap dishes.

Square pottery tiles for a display unit are lying flat to dry on recycled canvas from local business, Cool Canvas. Reduce, re-use, recycled when at all possible is important for Paloma Pottery as a sustainable business.

The pottery pieces are allowed to dry before going into the kiln for the bisque firing.

Once fired, the bisque ware is stamped with “Paloma Pottery” using iron oxide and is ready for glazing.

Buttons are lined up, glazed and then glass is added and loaded into the kiln. Textures and designs in the clay are achieved with natural and found objects (impressing or drawing with rocks, shells, etc.) giving an organic, nature inspired feeling. These pottery and glass buttons are a special order for Texture Clothing, a local hemp and natural fibers clothing company.

The kiln melts the glass and fuses it to the clay and glaze. Each piece is created to be a functional piece of pottery and art with as much versatility as possible. The semi porous crackle glass surface makes the popular soap dishes shown below a great gift for both him and her.

Artist unloads the kiln and inspects the finished art glass products. The crackle glass surface created is smooth to touch and sparkles with profound rich colors and textures.

Stock is built up for immediate purchase in the Paloma Pottery online store. Paloma Pottery offers over 40 different hand-made recycled glass fused ceramic products at affordable prices.

Earrings are placed on display for selling at outdoor markets, art fairs and festivals. Displays are handmade from found objects and other recycled materials. Each business decision is based in Triple Bottom Line accounting to reduce, reuse, recycle where at all possible throughout all business processes.

Recycled glass pottery tiles are made for tiling mirrors or sold separately as decorative backsplash tiles.

Wrought iron table with half moon shape tile. Glass pottery tile lays inside table and removes easily for cleaning.

Necklaces are placed on display and ready for purchase. Recycled canvas is also used in the final display unit, which is custom made by the artist. The recycling mission is consistent throughout all creative and business processes.

Paloma Pottery products are all handmade often using shapes from found objects. These glass pottery Necklace Pendants are cut out using the plastic tops from deodorant containers. Finding new uses for things that would otherwise be thrown away and keeping overhead low allows Paloma Pottery to offer unique pottery and glass products at affordable prices.