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View of greenware drying
in sun.
Lanier digging settlin's in
open field. He bags it and
carries it home.
Gathers ashes and settlin's
and pours water into
mixture.
rubber.
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C: I'd make right up around a hundred,
right around seventy-five and a hundred
gallons a day in big chums. And I don't
believe I ever made two pieces alike,
they'd be a little difference in them. But,
I put my handles on alike, and the lifters
on die churn. Thafs how I can. . .I can
tell a piece of my pott'ry, if I was to see it
in New York, just pass by and see it, I
could tell it, except in a flower pot,
diey're made every way, you know, no
certain shape for a flower pot, something
to hold a litde dirt in the bottom, and a
hole and a flower set in it.
L: Well, you're trying to preserve die old
things that has been, and things that are
going out. When I go, this place will go
with me, because mey'll be nobody else
left to carry it on. And widiout it, what
they get here they can't get anywhere
else.
MAKING ASH ("SHANGHAI") GLAZE—
WOOD ASHES, LOCALLY DUG CLAY
"SETTLIN'S", GROUND GLASS
C: Yes sir, that's the first thing that was ever
used here for a glaze. Take three
measures of ashes and one of the
setdin's, mix it together.
L: These settlin's are in a small place here.
I think they used to be an old mill pond
here, and this is the silt that settled into
it. It has all kinds of minerals in it, come
off of these old hills around here. It's
mosdy red clay is what it is.
C: We use some clay in the glaze, but now
that clay won't melt by itself. I always