Alie Ward

So yes, glaze is glass.

if you happen to have a career replicating the origins of ceramics, of course.

So teabags are good glaze.

Try it and report back, Potters.

I want to see it.

And, you know, getting back to the cup you were drinking from, of

A few people, Ryan Marlow, Ella Raptor, Jaws-themed swimming, Cynthia B., and Aaron Dewberry, and Aaron's word said, are the cheap plates and bowls from, let's say, the dollar store made by humans or machines?

And if machine, how does a pottery machine work?

What is industrial ceramics?

Yes, it is called a jigger and jolly, and it was invented in the 1700s.

And essentially, these are plaster molds that you can kind of patty cake a lump of clay onto.

And if it's a convex mold, it's a jigger.

And if it's a concave mold, it's a jolly.

And then these things are spun around and you use the right size wood tool to shape the wet clay to fit the mold and get a uniform size when you're making things like dinnerware.

And it dries and then it's fired and it's just as strong as a throne piece, but it's faster and more reliable in terms of sizing.

And I know Jigger and Jolly sounds like a pair of puppets with like scary old fashioned faces, but it's just a plate mold.

So yes, dry clay pressed so hard that the water gets juiced out of it on a molecular level to conform to a mold.

Wild.

What about the safety of glazes?

Some people asked about, are there some that have lead in them?