Handmade plates make great wall art. But there have been more times than I care to admit that I forgot to create a hanging mechanism on plates I have made until it was too late. And not all potters automatically add this feature to their plates, so there have been times when I wanted to hang a plate, but couldn’t. Or at least I thought I couldn’t.
In today’s post, an excerpt from his videoA Professional’s Guide to Hanging Ceramic Art, Adam Chau demonstrates how to use a great tool that you can find online to hang plates that don’t have a hanging mechanism. –Jennifer Poellot Harnetty, editor
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Published Sep 11, 2020
Handmade plates make great wall art. But there have been more times than I care to admit that I forgot to create a hanging mechanism on plates I have made until it was too late. And not all potters automatically add this feature to their plates, so there have been times when I wanted to hang a plate, but couldn’t. Or at least I thought I couldn’t.
In today’s post, an excerpt from his video A Professional’s Guide to Hanging Ceramic Art, Adam Chau demonstrates how to use a great tool that you can find online to hang plates that don’t have a hanging mechanism. –Jennifer Poellot Harnetty, editor
This clip was excerpted from A Professional’s Guide to Hanging Ceramic Art, which is available in the Ceramic Arts Network Shop!
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