{"id":151,"date":"2014-04-03T04:40:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T04:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreadpiratepottery.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2014-04-04T01:17:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T01:17:47","slug":"clays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratepottery.com\/wordpress\/clays\/","title":{"rendered":"About Clays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<table width=\"640px\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Roberts hand makes many of her clay bodies.\u00a0 Making clay from scratch is time consuming and physically strenuous but Roberts considers it a small price to pay to have clay suited exactly to the task at hand.For example the clay used for Lavaware is actually a high quality stoneware recipe passed down to Roberts from her college professor and mentor.\u00a0 Roberts saw the lava fields of Kona in 2005 and was inspired to find a clay or develop a clay body that looked and felt like lava rock.\u00a0 She returned to Missouri and walked into her professor\u2019s studio to find a piece made out of exactly what she was looking for.\u00a0 Thus the series of Lavaware was born.\u00a0 Lavaware is a high fired stone ware that is microwave and dishwasher safe.\u00a0 It also contains no real lava as Roberts respects the cultural sensitivity of the Hawaiians and the removal of lava rock from the islands.\u00a0 Aside from cultural issues actual lava melts at 2000 while the pottery is fired to cone 10 (2400) and would not withstand the firing.\u00a0 So where does the texture come from?\u00a0 The combination of minerals and grog give the clay the stone like texture.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients are combined into a container with water and drilled into a slip.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Mixing Clay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratepottery.com\/store\/images\/mixingclay.jpg\" width=\"626\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The slip is poured into racks to cure for 4 weeks or so.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Clay Rack\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratepottery.com\/store\/images\/clayrack.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberts hand makes many of her clay bodies.\u00a0 Making clay from scratch is time consuming and physically strenuous but Roberts considers it a small price to pay to have clay suited exactly to the task at hand.For example the clay used for Lavaware is actually a high quality stoneware recipe passed down to Roberts from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-151","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratepottery.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratepottery.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratepottery.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratepottery.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratepottery.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratepottery.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratepottery.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratepottery.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}