Clay & Metal
Things that pass through heat. Earth fired without a kiln, clay blackened by starving the fire, and silver drawn to the width of a hair on a bench that has not changed in three centuries.
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Section 02 of 06
Section 02 of 06
Entries in Clay & Metal
Fired earth and worked metal.- 006 Barro negroBlack clay vessel · Oaxaca, Mexico Black clay that is not glazed and not painted: the colour comes from firing, and the shine from burnishing the leather-hard pot with a quartz stone.
- 007 The open firingOpen-fired pot · Across the region No kiln — pots stacked, covered and fired in the open, and what that does to the surface and the failure rate.
- 008 Silver and the benchWorked silver · Taxco, Mexico Colonial silver was worked in quantity for three centuries. The bench tools and the techniques barely changed.
- 009 FiligreeFiligree ornament · Across the region Drawn wire twisted and soldered into an open pattern, worked without a solid ground.