In these pics I have 7lbs of Stoke clay and 3lbs of Local clay. the local one being the yellow colour.
Don't tell me
"there is a face in that"
I don't want to Know!
Any way carrying on
A few minuets later.
and the final result of a 70/30 mix.
The Local clay is much softer than the bag clay which I felt would be great for making a bigger pot.
So here is 10lbs on the wheel.
It was fantastic to throw with, just perfect for a larger pot and it made it so easy.
This Pancheon below is 15" wide.
and the three flower pots you can see on the new shelf system are a 50/50 blend and thrown very quickly as the old guys would have done in the past.
4 comments:
How did you prepare the native clay, Paul? I've had some local clay here, which proved to be a natural cone 10 stoneware, but I just removed the roots and large rocks, dried and slaked it and then threw it by itself. A very funky and rough clay body, but it made interesting pots and worked well with my high-fire Shino glazes. Wish i could get more. Yours looks pretty smooth and seems to blend well with the commercial clay body.
How local is 'local?'
"Puckington" about 1 mile from the workshop.
Hollis, it comes from the ground in hard dry lumps with stones, roots etc: so I soak it down to a runny slip put it through a 30 mesh sieve leave it to settle in a bucket pour off the excess water then dry it on a plaster batt. and just wedge it up from there. it is very smooth with a slight sandy quality. but very tactile.
Yes, that sounds more or less like what I've done, though it looks like you were a bit more careful about removing most of the stones. Looks like pretty smooth stuff.
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