Hi Everyone, A friend asked me to make her an African violet pot. She loaned me one of hers which was made in Thaland to see what one looked like since I had never seen a pot made just for that purpose. It is one large pot with a hole in the side near the top to water the plant and it has another separate pot that fits inside of the big one. The big pot is glazed all over inside and out. The smaller pot is only glazed around the top about an inch or two down. The unglazed part of the inside pot is very porous, like bisque, so the roots of the plant can absorb water through the pot. It probably is earthenware. I have only worked in stoneware. My question is: can I make the pot with stoneware clay, bisque at say cone 06 and then use a glaze formulated to mature at an earthenware temperture maybe cone 04? I know---test,test,test, which I will if someone thinks it's possible to do this. Since this is the only thing I will probably make like this, I don't want to have to buy earthenware clay if I don't have to. I have tons of stoneware clay. Thanks, Sandi
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18 years ago