Thor Holvila 2501-04
Thors comment:
"Here is another attempt from my side to try to make a connection to the past. This seemingly simple pot is an imitation of the flour vessels that were used in the past in the Nordic countries to make sour milk. We called them "Tråg", (Throughs?) They were made from hollowed-out tree trunks, and that's a bit how I've worked on this pot. Hollowed it out of from large pieces clammed together with slip. A technique I like. Then I've decorated it with a thin glaze in a "Fiskben" - "Herringbone style?" A decoration found on ceramics left behind by the first settlers in Sweden, who came in hollowed-out tree trunks from what is today northern Germany, to hunt along the artctic river banks for seals, birds and fish."
Outside measurements
width: 269 mm / 10.6"
depth: 185 mm / 7.3"
height: 67 mm / 2.6"
deep inside: 51 mm / 2.0"Info
Edition: January 2025 - Hope of Spring
Style: Rectangle
Clay: Mixed
Glazed and fully vitrified frost resistant stoneware
About this edition
THOR EDITIONS is handmade, unique and numbered pots that are released once a month under a dedicated theme
THOR ABOUT THE EDITION - "Hope of Spring
"We are in a very dark time and then it is important to keep up hope. The hope of brighter days, the hope of returning flowers, the hope of the passion and care for our plants, cultivating ourselves and the relationship with others. There is always light after darkness. I try to remind myself that we are only in shadow because of the movement of the celestial bodies. The sun has not stopped shining and light is the natural state and is as impossible to hold back, just as the water that seeks the ocean."