Bread Gallery
Tools & Technology
Negative Hand prints, air brushed
Using a simple mouth air brush to spray mineral pigments over hand shapes
Friction Fire, Bow Drill
Bow drill
friction fire
Madrone (Arbutus menziesii) drill on madrone base
Friction Fire, Hadza Style
Friction Fire with
yucca sticks
(Yucca filamentosa)
Origin: American Southwest
Punch bowl pottery
Mount Soledad clay
punch bowl decorated with rope made from New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax)
fully dried, and example of cup made from the same clay after it was fired in an open fire.
Venus Figurine
Flint knapping
Oldowan Rock breaking
Honey Harvest, PB
Cordage
Coconut
sennet
Palm Leaf
New Zealand flax
New Zealand flax
Palm leaf raffia
(Washingtonia robusta)
Red Cedar Paddle
Locating red cedar log in river Olympic Peninsula, WA
splitting the log with an axe and stone hammer,
carrying the blank home
carving the paddle
finished red cedar paddle
Cochineal
(Dactylopius coccus) these bugs are the source of precious red color and thrive on locally growing Opuntia cochenillifera and many other Opuntia species.
Cochineal harvest and Dying
Dyeing Sonoma sheep wool with cochineal , using alum as mordant.
Osage Orange Bow
Maclura pommifera, osgae orange, hedge apple, bois d'arc, best wood for flat bows in North America.
Bullroarer
also made from osage orange , this Stone Age musical instrument was made by humans on all continents.
a much lighter version made from Douglas fir
Hadza bows carved from California bayleaf, bent after heating over coals and treated with bee's wax
Hadza Bows (Ko'owa)
Hadza Axe (Ato'wa)
blade: forged steel from recycled broken crow bar
handle: Terminalia wood from Hadza land
Bow with yucca fiber string
Mojave yucca fiber
Yucca schidigera
Manzanita wood
St Ives Potter's Wheel
First bowl thrown since we transported this wheel from Basel, Switzerland to San Diego, California.
Wheel was built with a friend following the Bernard Leach plans, St Ives, UK.
Pottery Tools
Various ribs and spatulas carved from
olive, ebony, oak, juniper, and manzanita wood
Bread Dough Bowl
Large walnut tree stump in Sonoma
Gnocchi shaper carved from Tanzanian ebony Mwiko
Senufo style stool
from Walnut
Spoons
Roman sword
Japanese Calligraphy
Writing 清水館
"Pure Water Hall" for a friend's Karate dojo.
Aquatic Ape 水猩 calligraphy on TD2 custom board shaped by Jim Ellington, 2024
