beautiful terracotta utensils with non-stick coating

 Being from a potter community have fascination for clay utensils actually anything of clay   I own and use these beautiful clay utensils from my the remote area of chota Udepur in Gujarat. Made by The Dhanak Adivasi of Chota Udepur have an indigenous way of making non-stick terracotta utensils 

the best part is they are having a non-stick coating  made from locally procured lac, had bought these from the potter at a haat (weekly market in rural areas ) few years ago 

this is the most organic way of making non-stick utensils 

The uniqueness about these utensils is that they are made with the local clay, first sun dried, then burnished with application of geru paste and coated immediately with lac while they are taken out of the furnace. The firing is simple and fastest way ever seen anywhere. Dry leaves of Taad tree (local palm) are used to fire the utensils which takes only half an hour to bake them complete. The coating of lac, which is also harvested by the locals make it impervious, smooth and non-stick. 

The new normal

 

We're learning hard lessons lately. The ongoing coronavirus have taught me that to be resilient enough to bounce back time and time again, I need to strengthen my systems, learn as much as I can about what I want to do here and then put in the work to make it all happen.When I work through this season and my new systems start to evolve, those hard lessons might save me in the future.

spending a pandemic making soft and pretty things may seem impractical and silly in certain ways—, maybe, and certainly a privilege when my life and livelihood aren’t (yet) directly at stake. Handicrafts such as crochet, knitting, and embroidery—traditionally practiced by women and by the elderly—carry passive associations that defy most notions of bravery. 

I think of Jo March, the heroine from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, lamenting that she can’t fight for the Union Army in the Civil War but must “stay home and knit, like a poky old woman.” And yet that dismissal belies the quiet strengths embedded in every stitch. Counting the movements of hooks and needles, row after row, over the hours or days it takes to complete a project, requires patience, focus, and persistence. And these cognitive skills—to say nothing of the proven mental-health benefits of crafting—are just the ones needed to weather a disaster that’s defined by waiting.

https://www.create-with-joy.com/2020/10/inspire-me-monday-week-455.html

https://www.sumoftheirstories.com/blog/2020/handmade-monday-196

Meraki link party

https://keepingitrreal.blogspot.com/2020/10/welcome-to-really-crafty-link-party-235.html#more

http://www.sewcando.com/2020/10/hello-october-craftastic-monday-link.html

http://www.stonecottageadventures.com/2020/10/youre-star-blog-hop-october-week-2.html#more