stoneware (it will not throw nearly as high) nor the adaptability toa
broad range of glazes nor the final durability.

This discussion of clay characteristics has been far too brief but
perhaps by the time we have completed the papers on drying and
firing, and maybe even clay geology, the whole story will have been
told or at least a recognizable picture drawn,

BEGINNINGS WITH CLAY - I, by G. Lewis

I wrote a lot about clay which I discarded before I finally settled on
this. It may still be the best fate for the current effort. Writing
about pottery presents me with an irony of sorts. I can put down
my knowledge on paper - it will come out very simply - there are
no great secrets. In fact, it is just the same sort of things most
people do, Yet my work is different from theirs perhaps. It then
becomes a question of not "what you do" but "how you do it”.
That's not quite right either, as the illustration of Hamada, in my
previous article, shows. 'How you do it" is a result of your
attitudes and perceptions, but I cannot write about attitudes - I can
only hint at them. It then becomes apparent that whatever one
writes is meaningless in terms of telling or communicating,
because all I can write about are the simple procedures and recipes
Iuse, which, taken at face value, are not different or even very
interesting. Nothing can really take the place of "doing". You
would almost have to live with a potter and taste his food to bring
yourself closer to his attitudes and insights. This seems very
negative and not very useful but I really believe that this is one of
the problems which faces me and possibly others too,

I probably could write a volume on the technicalities and procedures
that I use which I have already said would probably be meaningless
without the person involved. Instead of this lengthy exposition
there are three books I know of which give the information much
better than I am able to do:

“A Potter's Book" by Bernard Leach
"Clay and Glazes for the Potter'' by Daniel Rhodes

10. "Ceramics" - 2nd edition, by Glen Nelson