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Summary: About greenware pottery and how to protect it; learn this and more in this free video arts and crafts lesson taught by a pottery making expert.
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Betty Ingham Betty and her husband Ben have purchased and entirely remodeled a 100 year old Victorian home. They also own a pottery studio.
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Hi I'm Betty Ingham and on behalf of Expert Village and that is what the foot looks like. The next step we do is we sign our piece of pottery and a lot of people at shows they also pick up a piece of pottery and look on the bottom and some people say if it is not signed they won't buy it. This is what I'm going to do now we just sign every piece that we make and we always put the year on it. So they would know it is hand made and this was made several days ago and this called green ware this is the same kind of clay. This is what it looks like wet and this what it looks in green ware. If I was to drop this on the floor it would be just like a piece of chalk it would just shattered into pieces. This is a piece of clay that has been dried as you can see it would just shatter this is called green ware. So when we go to shows and we demo we have to be very careful and most of the time we do get our green ware back cause we pack it very very securely.