posted 2 hours ago
So my drive was not so much to making pottery. I would show kiln to potters and they would ask "What kind of pottery I had done" and I would try to explain. I was more interested in the making of the kilns for different uses, especially for making fire brick and refractory brick for making more better kilns and hopefully forges. Refractory brick is not cheap. Since I had so many clays near and Basalt rock dusts and so many other blessings such as sands in clays to screen out. . I set off to playing with stuff from wheat flour cooked to calcining egg shells, to fly ash from certain barks, even shredding acrylic yarns (carding is newer and dog brush seems too slow). Studied journals on clays from different countries and took on serious studies of concrete to be more interdisciplinary.
Yes, if not guessed. . I was in central NC. The wonderful red clay region for bricks in the range where all the volcanic islands got shoved up against the Appalachian run off of semi precious stones, leaving Nello Teer the exposed basalts. My plans are -now that living arrangements drastically altering to get more into the mountains. There to build in a hobbit type home and Dragon style kilns. Big rocks. Maybe fund with some semi-precious rockhounding near Franklin, as granite quarries also near. Probably will have to make some trips for my more kaolin clays from Piedmont, but hopes that can all pan out with terrace farming and all the permaculture stuff I been doing since -well long time ago.
I digress. Kilns. Stuff connected to. hopefully I can learn more about how to use the technology to do more, Video would not load because mp3 or 2 or some such thing -lol.
Further.