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Why would you name the studio as machimochi?
Machimochi is the name of the little monster with missing teeth on logo.It was inspired by a self-portrait of my childhood.
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How to take care of your ceramics? Are they food safe and mircrowave safe?
Yes every pieces from machimochi studio are food safe and mircrowave safe.
However, since they are handmade art pieces, we recommend hand-washing to maintain your ceramics last as long as possible. In order to protect the colours of glaze and avoid cracking, we also suggest reducing the times of using microwave.
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Why does the glaze on my mugs cracking/crazing when hot water in poured in?
This is a normal and safe situation.when hot liquid is poured into containers these glaze is the first to thermally expand, creating more even compression. The ceramic is under tension already, being stretched by pressure from within.
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Material:
All the ceramics are made with pottery's clay, fired in electric kiln, glazed to be foodsafe. It should be noticed that every handicraft might have little flaws in the production process,which we regard as unique.