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'mercun raku

updated mon 18 mar 02

 

Klyf Brown on fri 15 mar 02


I read somewhere, long ago, that the Chinese (or maybe it was
Japanese) used a very heavy green tea solution to seal the crazing for
functional ware. Black coffee would probably do the same.
Klyf in NM, usa

I've used my Cafe Latte bowls (my favorite rice and cereal bowls
>and sometimes coffee bowls) for years with no ill effect. I've also
use the
>same fatty-white glaze with wax resist decoration on pilgrim flasks
and they are
>successful vases (hold water without use of sealant.)

>Lee Love
> Mashiko JAPAN Ikiru@kami.com
>

Lee Love on fri 15 mar 02


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ababi"

> All this to tell you, Raku here in "America" or even here in Israel,
> is a decorative ware

Mine Raku totally functional. :^) I use a fritted glaze and only use
oxides on the outside. I do not water quench the work but I do use reduction
materials. I've used my Cafe Latte bowls (my favorite rice and cereal bowls
and sometimes coffee bowls) for years with no ill effect. I've also use the
same fatty-white glaze with wax resist decoration on pilgrim flasks and they are
successful vases (hold water without use of sealant.)

--

Lee Love
Mashiko JAPAN Ikiru@kami.com
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Ababi on fri 15 mar 02


this is certainly refreshing. I think you might not understand me Lee.
As I have said, if you know, the potter, not just buying in a shop, you
can trust his glazes.
From my point of view, you can use decorative wares for dry food.
I adopted the strict rules of clayart about food safety, that is why I
cannot consider raku as a food safe. If you can do such, very good!
Ababi
---------- Original Message ----------

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ababi"

>> All this to tell you, Raku here in "America" or even here in Israel,
>> is a decorative ware

> Mine Raku totally functional. :^) I use a fritted glaze and
>only use
>oxides on the outside. I do not water quench the work but I do use
>reduction
>materials. I've used my Cafe Latte bowls (my favorite rice and
>cereal bowls
>and sometimes coffee bowls) for years with no ill effect. I've also
>use the
>same fatty-white glaze with wax resist decoration on pilgrim flasks and
>they are
>successful vases (hold water without use of sealant.)

>--

>Lee Love
> Mashiko JAPAN Ikiru@kami.com
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Klyf Brown on sat 16 mar 02


Tony,
I had recently watched a program on the building of the great wall in
China. In the later years they had advanced their mortar technology
and it was recently discovered that they used rice hulls in the process.
I thought of this when writing my earlier post and wondered if rice
may be somehow involved. Rice is such a usefull plant.
Klyf in NM usa

3/16/02 9:57:02 AM, Tony Ferguson
wrote:

>I have a recipe from a tea master for this. It involves rice.

Tony Ferguson on sat 16 mar 02


I have a recipe from a tea master for this. It involves rice. I will look
for it and if I forget please remind me.

Thank you!

Tony Ferguson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Klyf Brown"
To:
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: 'Mercun Raku


> I read somewhere, long ago, that the Chinese (or maybe it was
> Japanese) used a very heavy green tea solution to seal the crazing for
> functional ware. Black coffee would probably do the same.
> Klyf in NM, usa
>
> I've used my Cafe Latte bowls (my favorite rice and cereal bowls
> >and sometimes coffee bowls) for years with no ill effect. I've also
> use the
> >same fatty-white glaze with wax resist decoration on pilgrim flasks
> and they are
> >successful vases (hold water without use of sealant.)
>
> >Lee Love
> > Mashiko JAPAN Ikiru@kami.com
> >
>
>
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