Originating in Kyoto during the late 1570s, Raku ware—celebrated for its rustic elegance and tactile charm—continues to be hand-shaped and fired using techniques developed by the esteemed potter Chojiro.
“The subtle asymmetrical rhythms of the tea bowls” are achieved by using a technique called “twist molding" and a rare firing method called Raku “pull-out” firing.
The raku bowls have long been “valued for its artistic potentialities of surface texture and color and for its practicality for tea bowls (because a somewhat thick and porous clay vessel is a bad conductor if heat and the bowl of hot fragrant tea could, therefore, be held comfortably in the hands” (A potter’s book by Bernard Leach)
You can find the Raku tea bowls we carry here:
https://www.earthenarchive.com/search?sort_by=relevance&filter.v.price.gte=0&filter.v.price.lte=145&q=raku&options%5Bprefix%5D=las
