Raku Heart in Hand Rattles Product:Raku Heart in Hand Rattles Hand-built stoneware heart is glazed

Hand-built stoneware heart is glazed by hand with small brushes to bring out the detail in pattern and texture

Five tiny cast sterling silver figures are working hard to add one more little copper teacup to the tower of three

They are then adorned with hand-curved pulls in anodized aluminum

etched by the forces of nature

it is wired

Raku Heart in Hand Rattles Product:Raku Heart in Hand Rattles Hand-built stoneware heart is glazedOnce these hand built rattles are bisque fired, they're coated with a clay slurry of clay which, when heated, shrinks and cracks like a mud flat in the sun. Once removed from the kiln, the rattles are raku fired, which drives the fired materials into the crackled clay. Once cool, artist Valerie Seaberg chips off the crusted clay, and washed and seals the piece with a light wax. Due to the nature of raku firing, the pattern of each will vary. Sold in a