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Re: native pottery part 2
iowabow:
learned something real cool today about mixing the clay bodies. Dry mix lime will not mix but the lime wet will. it is going to be fun to text this out in the kiln. My guess is the dry is going to pop. lol it is getting fun now
David_Daugherty:
These are some of the pots the people I do pottery with made. These are prefired pots. Hope to get some pics of some of the pots we have pit fired on here soon. The fire really paints the pottery nice!
iowabow:
Update the technical data is coming in and now pots are being made to test the data. I will keep ya posted. This is a long process.
JW_Halverson:
John and I talked this morning about what he is learning about making clay pots. What he's learning is that he has barely started learning!
We look at these "primitive" technologies as being crude or simple, when the opposite is really true. He is learning that there are quite a few variables that need to be taken into account in order to make a pot that works LIKE A POT SHOULD! Remember, these peoples made these pots (and other traditional gear) according to generation after generation of experimentation yielding thousands of failures that were expensive in time, effort, and sometimes materials. All those failures took away from feeding and clothing yourself and your family. When they hit on something that worked, they passed that knowledge on. That's what culture is....knowledge that works.
Upshot...primitive skills are something you have to work hard at. If this "primitive stuff" were all that easy, then we'd all have no problem turning out a dozen perfectly matched wicked sharp stone arrowheads the first hour we sat down with abo tools, right? All our first bows would be our last bows because they were sooooo dang goooood! Yeah. Right. Send me $2 and I'll send you a lifetime supply of winning lottery ticket numbers.
Jimbob:
John, I need your address to send my 2 dollars too....... ;D
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