mel jacobson on sat 3 dec 11
A few years ago I decided to make glazes from all local or
homemade ingredients. I used: wood ashes, glass cullet that I
made from bottles and jars, and "dirt" - the soil from around
my place, with all the junk sieved out.
I made a 15-point triaxial blend with these three ingredients.
The 3 corners were, as best I can remember:
80 dirt, 10 ashes, 10 cullet
60 ashes, 20 cullet, 20 dirt
60 cullet, 20 ashes, 20 dirt
The results were that I had basically every type of glaze.
The high dirt glazes were dry mats,
the high ash glazes were variegated semi-mats,
the high cullet glazes were bright shiny clears glossies.
Not much in the way of colors, but I could do a lot with
the rust (iron oxide) I have collected, either as coarse
pieces (speckles) or milled down to regular iron oxide.
Now that I have visited Mel's place, I can picture pots
lined up all along the deck, but wonder where that
rambunctious dog spent the afternoon?
Attendance at my 20th annual sale was down, in terms
of attendees, but sales numbers were as good as usual.
David Hendley
david@farmpots.com
http://www.farmpots.com
http://www.thewahooligans.com
----- Original Message -----
>i saw an interview years back with a very old
> jug town/carolina potter.
>
> when asked about his glaze he said...`well, i take a
> big pail of `swampfix'n's` and add to some
> feldspar.
> then i run it through an old winda screen. dunk my pots in that.`
> (just guess what swamp fix'n's is?)
>
> i don't think he used a digital scale.
> and his pots were glorious.
>
> they dug their own clay too. with a shovel.
> wood fired of course...ground hog kiln.
> it is important to look and understand how
> folks did it years back.
>
> it helps put your own work in perspective about
> hand made, craft.
>
> we do live in a push button world.
> mel
> had a great sale yesterday.
> many mentioned...buy american, buy local.
> nice.
> from: minnetonka, mn
> website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
> clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
from: minnetonka, mn
website: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/
clayart link: http://www.visi.com/~melpots/clayart.html
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