Slip: Jomon Zogan Inlay

This dish is impressed with a rope, then brushed with slip and then
scraped. It takes patiences and time to do. Like one visiting potter
told me (as best as I can remember) , "I'd couldn't make a living take
so much time on one piece."

Slip Inlay: chattering and plum flower stamp

Slip Decoration: Hakame

This work is bisqued. I used different slips and hakame straw brush
or a bamboo brush to put slips on the clay surfaces

Slip Decoration: Hakame

This work is bisqued. I used different slips and hakame straw brush
or a bamboo brush to put slips on the clay surfaces

Slip Decoration: Hakame

This work is bisqued. I used different slips and hakame straw brush
or a bamboo brush to put slips on the clay surfaces

Slip Decoration: Hakame

This work is bisqued. I used different slips and hakame straw brush
or a bamboo brush to put slips on the clay surfaces

Slip Decoration: Hakame

This work is bisqued. I used different slips and hakame straw brush
or a bamboo brush to put slips on the clay surfaces

Slip Decoration: Hakame

This work is bisqued. I used different slips and hakame straw brush
or a bamboo brush to put slips on the clay surfaces

Kiln Room Heating System

The kerosene heater keeps my feet warm. The galvanized bucket heats
water. I wad everything with kaolin/alumina wads or sea shells. The
hot water helps the wads stick and keeps my hands warm.

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Shells From The Fish Shop

There are a pile of these shells at the local fish market. Most are
too big for use under pots. I dumped these out of the galvanized
bucket so I could heat some water on the kerosene heater in the kiln room.

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