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...Her work is now celebrated in a monograph, A Journey Painted in Clay (Unicorn, £25)....
...Sausage-like coils of clay and glass are then pressed to give a three-dimensional quality to a flat work, she says. The glass sweats through the clay, giving the sculptures a candy-like gloss....
...And struggles there will be: for every law-abiding, yarn-producing citizen you welcome, there’s a bandit out there who just wants to steal your clay tiles and kill your sheep....
...She discovered the process while “searching for ways to showcase clay’s natural beauty, [which is] often hidden beneath glazes.”...
...She then hand-burnishes them, adds a thin clay slip, and reburnishes. The final firing results in black and orange pots so polished they offer an almost reflective shine....
...Incised lines revealing the pale underlying clay were also made before firing....
...The funding will go towards two new manufacturing plants in Clay, New York, as well as a plant in Boise, Idaho, where Micron has its headquarters....
...“Potters who couldn’t afford clay would often steal it from the Roman roads as they were built on top of a heavy layer of clay, causing deep holes in the road surface.”...
...Architects for Rosenthal, £440 Referencing the architects’ 2016 inflatable art pavilion, this vase is available in a new pastel yellow shade. rosenthal.de Blend vase by Ferm Living, £85 Made from folded clay...
...Colouring still showed on these clay “buds”, which had holes in their tips too, some of which may have held real flowers....
...“Clay came to me out of necessity”, he says. “It didn’t require any prior teaching.”...
...These rampant weeds are in fact sculptures, delicately modelled in clay by hand....
...It’s hard to believe she conjured such an atmospheric landscape out of clay alone....
...He points to a pair of clay lamp shades that took him six hours to paint. “Obviously, this is something that could be taped on and really perfect,” he explains....
...Clay is still on the agenda for Gutovic as a less carbon-intensive cement ingredient....
...Interestingly, the very earliest Chicago “skyscrapers” had very shallow foundations and were designed for uniform settlement on the soft clay surface soils....
...Everything you see was made in the real world first: models made of clay and wire; sets and locations built in the studio of Cologne-based developer Slow Bros....
...A whole district around Via San Gregorio Armeno is devoted to family-run workshops, where figurines, landscapes and even tiny clay cheeses are lovingly sculpted....
...While my finds are mostly quite modest — a sherd of medieval pottery, a Georgian clay pipe, a handmade Tudor dress pin — I occasionally hit the jackpot....
...Clay is a multilingual material.”...
...You have to take it from an original aspirant, a 20th century late modernist or proto-postmodernist such as Ralph Lauren, who knows well enough that such a style is derived from skeet or clay pigeon-shooting...
...hot-water bottle, £69, at couvertureandthegarbstore.com FOR BUSY MINDS Airstream stay on the Isle of Skye, From £130 a night, plus £19 annual KIP membership, kiphideaways.com FOR AMATEUR FLORISTS Vaiselle clay...
...From Kingswood’s Clay Lechleiter*: [G]iven that Kingswood thought that indebtedness included the SSI debt, because it was borrowed money and because of the guarantee, we were surprised that they had not...
...1950s wood and wrought-iron coat-hanger stand, €1,210, vntg.com Philips Iris table lamp, £94.99 Ralph Lauren Home stainless-steel Thorpe ice bucket and tongs set, £295 Mervyn Gers Ceramics stoneware-clay...
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