Observed arrival · 2026-09-23
Olar Acasă’s pottery notes from Horezu
Mihaela shares practical notes on pottery tools and techniques from her small home workshop in Horezu, Romania.
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- Beginning and practicing home potters
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- Her foot wheel, bought from a market potter with a cracked wooden disc, is still in use 13 years later.
Field notes
The tool entries connect each object to a specific use: separate soft and rough sponges, for example, are kept for different stages of finishing. Mihaela says she made three plaster boards in 2014 because they draw water from clay faster than wood or plastic. Her notes also acknowledge that two of her six modeling tools were unnecessary purchases.
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