Lili Krakowski on fri 31 dec 10
A great training exercise in cut/slam wedging is: Get (mix or buy) some =3D
20 lbs of white/light colored clay, and same of dark. Now wedge and =3D
slam till you have a buff colored lump of clay. For those who are =3D
competitive: set it up as a race to the slop, see who gets a unified =3D
colored lump of clay soonest.
As to Cornwall Stone. Cornwall Stone, like dozens of other ceramic =3D
materials was/is mined. And over the years has changed in and of itself =
=3D
as mines, and mine runs changed. "We" have lost (and I expect added) =3D
lots and lots of clays, and lots and lots of feldspars over the years, =3D
and that is just what happens. =3D20
But this mourning for lost spars is as futile as it is neurotic. Glaze =
=3D
testing and glaze calculation soon will replace/or replicate a glaze =3D
that contained the now-no-longer-available material.
I will miss Cornwall Stone....it was part of the glazes of my youth! =3D
But the only products I still, really miss are Dalton, Jordan, and =3D
Monmouth clay--which just were such great throwing clays. That is what =3D
happens. Time marches on, malls and developments and super-highways =3D
"have" to be built in the name of Progress...and great clay beds are =3D
macademed over.
A good 2011 to all....
Lili Krakowski
Be of good courage
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