This is the Potter's Cast.

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It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business.

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

Hey, welcome to episode number 1,194 of the Potterscast. I got a question for you. It's a serious question. So I have this

cup that I made, and I'm wondering if you might be able to help me with it. So not too long ago,

like, I don't know, like in the summer, the fall, that time, somebody brought me some wild clay.

Now, I may have told you the story before, but I'm just going to recap it for Dems of you that don't know the story.

I had, I was at a, like a pop-up last year and someone who brought this beautiful cup,

this beautiful red clay that they had made this, this beautiful cup with this amazing clay

body that I was just fascinated with.

So it turns out it was wild clay out of her backyard and she decided to fire it

and work with it and it came out amazing. When I say amazing, I mean like amazing. One of my most

favorite colors of clay that I've ever seen in my life.

It's this beautiful, like, ochre, red color that, like, if you go and buy a commercial red clay,

it's going to have all sorts of dyes in it and chemicals, which I mean, all clays do, right?

But as far as chemicals, but minerals, that may be the right way to say it.

And this clay just does it naturally.

But it starts out with this incredible, like a very earthy, again, ochre-type yellow, and then it turns

this beautiful red.

And, oh, my word, I just got to tell you, it was, so they gave me this clay, and I used it.

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