Chess board and pieces

Chess, checkers, backgammon… A handmade board game, now that’s an original project!

Time for supreme concentration! Not to play a game of chess, but to shape your own chess pieces. Because that’s the advantage of handmade: you don’t have to go for the classic shapes. You can choose pawns with clean geometric lines or detailed characters that could come straight out of a storybook. All that remains is to learn the rules of chess …

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Pieces of wood and wood ash for ash glaze
Techniques
Nele

Ash glaze

Ash glaze is one of the oldest types of glaze, and it was first used in East Asia.