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Comment by Mary A Steggles, Art Hist Prof on March 9, 2009 at 8:06am

Hi Adam, Good Luck with the order. Oh,wow. Old kiln sites around Thailand. Thanks! My students will be terribly grateful.

Comment by Adam Rogers on March 9, 2009 at 7:58am

Yeah...I'm put in a maintenance order and that's been approved...but this is Thailand...so I'm not holding my breath...it might take a while to find, but I have some photos somewhere of these massive old kilns from Ratchaburi province here

Comment by Mary A Steggles, Art Hist Prof on March 8, 2009 at 11:07pm

Hi Everyone,
I am looking for two things for my History of Ceramics course: images of work by up and coming Asian ceramicists and images of old kiln sites throughout Asia. If anyone has images they would not mind sharing, please send them as low resolution jpeg to dsteggles@shaw.ca And Adam, how are you making out with your clay reclaiming?

Comment by Mary A Steggles, Art Hist Prof on February 19, 2009 at 10:32am

Adam, Basically you just don't want the clay to dry out too quickly in a hot climate. The smaller the dry particles, the shorter the time will be. You could take boards and cover them with plastic for a lid - or a piece of board. Garbage bags although bad for the environment are great for lining holes and also for covering boards. The size depends on how much clay you want to recycle. You might do well to have a few. If you are actually digging pits, make sure that they are out of the way of people walking so they don't trip and break their ankles and away from dogs. They love to pee on the lids. Don't ask me why!!!!!!!

Comment by Adam Rogers on February 19, 2009 at 10:23am

Thanks guys...I'll run it past management and see what they say.
How deep should they go and what sort of lid does it need...might have trouble getting the workers to build a concrete one.

Comment by Mary A Steggles, Art Hist Prof on February 19, 2009 at 10:18am

Joan is right. The clay needs to be absolutely dry and this is where your behaviour modification programme comes in or - as you call it, behaviour management. Let them go at it. Pulverize the stuff any way they can. Good luck!

Comment by Mary A Steggles, Art Hist Prof on February 19, 2009 at 10:17am

Just a thought. Depending on how quick you want this clay, Adam, I might suggest some great big pails!

Comment by Joan Lueth on February 19, 2009 at 10:00am

Here are a couple of suppliers in Asia region. We’ve not used them only because they didn’t stock what we were looking for at the time. But another school here in Beijing uses Paton quite often and has been pleased.

Friendly Manufacturers Corporation
Flat A 6/F, Yue An Industrial District, No. 6 Huang Cun Avenue, Dongpu,
Tianhe District, Guangzhou, P.R.C.
P.C.: 510660
TEL: 86-20-82315648
FAX: 86-20-82317860


Paton Arts & Crafts Production Ltd.
Front Portion, 13/fl., Nathan Apartment
512 Nathan Road, Yaumatei
Kowloon, Hong Kong,
Phone: 852-2789-1937
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 79206, Mong Kok Post Office, Kowloon
Phone: 852-2359-9869

Zheng Yi Trading Company Limited
2nd Floor, 220 Taikang Lu, Shanghai
Shanghai, 2000025
China Phone:(8621) 64450902
Fax:(8621) 64450937
Email: Potteryworkshop@yahoo.com Website: Ceramics.com.hk

Comment by Joan Lueth on February 19, 2009 at 9:54am

Good on you Adam – will you also hid a little prize in the pit too? I read an on-line article recently from Ceramic Arts Daily discussing various methods of recycling clay. You could look it up in their archives. One tip was to leave the clay until bone dry before rehydrating. Takes far less time when recycling than starting with damp clay. Doesn’t help with the pit, but the site has useful daily tips on techniques, videos, bookstore, etc. that come to your email daily. Easy and free to subscribe.
www.ceramicartsdaily.org

Comment by Mary A Steggles, Art Hist Prof on February 19, 2009 at 9:53am

Hi Adam, Hopefully you will get a lot of feedback from everyone! I have done this and seen it done many ways. So I will give you all of the variations I have seen and maybe others will join in with their experiences. The first time I did this, I did not line my pit with anything. The second time I actually made a kind of cement pit. I dug a huge hole and then we put in gravel all around the sides and then about 2 inches of cement. Let this dry 'cure' for about a week and put in the clay, all broken up, with lots of water. We had also made a cement lid that was about 3 inches thick reinforced with all kinds of bits and bobs of metal handles at the sides to help lift it. The pit was kind of big. This worked better than nothing. I have seen it done with plastic - the thick sheets - also. The key is to be able to check and continue to put in some water. You really want a mud slurry in the end that you can then put on plaster bats so that more water is removed. Does this make sense? I have also, BTW, seen this done in metal wash buckets and cement troughs. Anyone else out there have any experience? Good luck, Adam. Take some photos.

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