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Mayfield Clay Mine

This is the clay mine that Starways Pottery sources the main ingredient for the stoneware clay produced at Starways.

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Visit to the Bernard Leach Pottery and kiln site St Ives Cornwall

A memorable visit to Cornwall It was a most informative and inspiring pilgrimage for Anton with many realizations, surprises and affirmations. The visit was a fulfillment of a lifetime ambition to visit one of the sources and beginning impulses of this particular style of craft in South Africa.

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Easter 2011 Glaze firing

Our Easter firing. Vale fired some large hand built vessels and Anton fired a collection of memorial pots dedicated to Craftsman Tony Canter. They were commissioned by the family. I used a copper rivet altered by Tony in the decoration of the pots. The rivet was a trade mark in Tony's fine woodwork. I also used his wooden puzzle piece to create the medallions on the pots. The facets were cut using a woodworker's draw knife. These pots are a limited edition collection made available to the family first and later to our collectors.

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Wood Firing March 2011

Our first woodburn firing for 2011. Mostly small works were fired and a lot of odd pots left over from previous firings. There were some pleasant surprises. Vale and Anton shared the stoking with Mzwekaya in a support role collecting waste wood for the firing.

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