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    12th thru 18th century primitive pottery (coil built) &
    16th thru 18th century colonial pottery (wheel thrown)

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  1. alabama
    Hey Rebekah, I trim everything right side up. For things like pitchers I trim the top and incise the lip before I pull the spout. I used to trim like everyone else but over the years, have morphed into this method.
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    Is there an example of what you're trying to accomplish, on this cuerda seca du jour? Alabama
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    Just received book, "Ceramics: A World Guide to Traditional Techniques by Bryan Sentence. My initial 5 minutes of looking thru it is positive! Seems like more wheel throw pottery than coiled but that's fine. Its not real in depth cause it covers a lot. I give it two opposable thumbs up! :)

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    If you didn't know about crushing shells for pottery, you should burn the shells first...then you should be able to crumble them in your hands. As for the percentage, figure 35%-50% or by the look! . But expect the opportunity to watch it disintegrate after a while.
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    The way I use shells the most in the associated with hand built pottery are ribs. If you can find one that is smooth and somewhat oval and the right size, it can be used as a rib. If you flip the same shell over, its a scraper. The shell tool is unlikely to wear out in your lifetime! . If you find a shell with a wavy edge it can used as a rocker stamp for texture and designs. See ya Alabama
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    Shells are made from layers with a type of adhesive or bonding agent between the layers. The adhesive burns out above 451 degrees and the layers change to calcium hydroxide over 951 degrees. Calcium hydroxide is a powder that absorbs moisture from humidity, expands, and if there is enough crushed shells in the clay... The vessel will disintegrate with in a year! I know this is true about mussel shell... And assume sea shells are the same/similar! But then it doesn't hurt to experiment.
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    Bought two more books today...got my own copy of Traditional Pottery of Papua New Guinea and ceramics:A world guide to traditional techniques, which I haven't read! I read TP of Papua NG about 30 years ago.....

    1. glazenerd

      glazenerd

      Such announcements require pictures of the end product.

    2. alabama

      alabama

      I did a senior research project in college identifying 36 methods of decorating primitive pottery and making an example of each one. So this new book should have examples of modern pottery I guess!!! We'll see. The book should be here in a couple of days!

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    I like the dark water jar and then either bowl. The dark jar is a copy of an se Indian jar from about 1625 thru 1710 a.d.
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    Thank you Ms old lady. Heidi is hanging in there. You know she's getting old when the wild rabbits in the yard out run her by walking! . I'm starting to make of this type of pottery... Yesterday I bought a 5 gal.bucket of sand and today a friend of mine brought me 50 lbs.of Tallapoosa River clay he dug Sunday. So I'm on my way home to start making more items. Some for me and some for the animal shelter auction in July!!
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    pit fire

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    Pit fired pottery from Saturday. Four bags of wood fired 5 vessels.
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    When I was teaching pottery at a community college the dept teacher wanted to change the canvas on the existing tables. Mind you when they re-canavassed the time years before, they put new canvas over old worn out canvas...so they pulled off the newer canvas black mold had grown between the two layers! Solid black mold! Not sure if there is a good black mold and bad mold...we assumed it was bad! Speaking of tables and dust in the studio, does CAD recommend an air purification unit? I looked at different modules on Amazon and the price ranges from $30.00 to $500.00! Any thoughts? Alabama
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    We're experimenting with melting glass in the kiln. The kiln wash didn't work so we're using parchment paper next time. The paper normally will take up to 500 degrees, so we're using 3 layers!
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    melted glass

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    Testing broken glass in kiln
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    I hate filling out employment applications and resume even if it means a 75 percent wage increase...now the wait for the call begins! :)

    1. Mark C.

      Mark C.

      I have no idea what that feels like -my last one was in the middle to early 70's

      I do know about waiting for the phone to ring

    2. Evelyne Schoenmann

      Evelyne Schoenmann

      My fingers are crossed for you Alabama! Hugs

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    Just ordered "In The Shadow of the Secret Grove" by Carol Spindle...It should have a section on pottery of the Ivory Coast!!

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      alabama

      Dear spell check, the name is C. Spindel.

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