The Kurinuki Sessions - Wooden bowls

Propellor’s Kurinuki Sessions are the product of our ongoing explorations into the traditional Japanese Kurinuki ceramic technique. The word Kurinuki, roughly translating to "hollowing out", is a subtractive ceramic method where cups, tea bowls, vases, and other vessels are carved from a solid mass of clay instead of being built up or thrown on a wheel.

The Kurinuki process celebrates the marks of the maker, where the method of production is revealed rather than obscured, bringing a dynamic and immediate quality to the forms. Due to this method of crafting, each wooden bowl is completely unique and manifests the story of it’s own creation.

With the Kurinuki Sessions, we’ve departed from the traditional ceramic medium to explore this same craft ethos in wood. Scaled up dramatically and crafted from salvaged local woods, these wooden bowls and objects are shaped through a combination of sawing, hewing and turning.