Horse Hair (Pottery) Source?

How narrow minded of her! Some folks just don't get it that art requires sacrifice.

Try here:

here: (this one's kind of spendy in my opinion)or even here: Google search engine is your friend. Go to Google.com and try it for yourself. It's amazing what kind of stuff you can find. (it's also amazing, and more than a little bizarre what other uses people find to put horse hair to and that google will find for you) Please let us know how it goes.

what about what's collected in the hair brush? certainly this works.

maybe then YOU can brush down the horse, tugging a little harder in some areas?

see ya

steve

steve graber

Tina,

How soon do you need it? I have a friend that will save it for me if I ask - I don't mind sharing. I can mail you a small package of it to try.

Reply offline to claydancer_@_aeroinc.net (remove the underscores for correct address) with your mailing address.

Lori

I have NEVER seen a curried horse that did not give up some hair. Ask you friend for some or volunteer to do the grooming at a local stable.

Have you ever noticed how potters seem to be big on food (Octoberfest pottery festival comes to mind..... (I once accidentally posted a Koi question that was meant to go to pond.rec here..... you can imagine the heart palpitations the poor folks in rec.pond had with all the ideas for how to cook a koi in a kiln.....)

Tina,

Around here (Mid france), fences are sometimes barbed wire, not a nice material but it does seem to rip out horse tail hail quite nicely, when they rub up against it. I collected a fair bit this way. Hedges, trees etc in the field seem to do the same.

All the best,

Alistair.

Yeah well.... this thread also mentions "curried horse" (as opposed to currying a horse for the hair) so I'm sure that would amount to some flaming as well in the horse NGs!

Tastes like chicken....

LOL.

Tina

is it pretty good with Basmatti rice?

steve

steve graber

What is it with horse hair anyway? What effects does it have with the glazing? Would sheep wool be any good as well? I have just had my hair drastically reduced (cut) - It was down my back, now it is very short. Now I'm having palpatations thinking that I could have saved it for glaze tests! Arrgh! JM

Hi JM,

My understanding is that horse hair is thicker than human hair. When put on a hot Raku pot, it burns into the claybody and carbonizes into the clay. Human hair isn't thick enough to carbonize into the clay body. I'm not sure about wool, but I suspect it may be too thin as well. Good luck with your new hair cut and don't worry about saving what you cut off.

FW

Hiya Fred, Thanks for putting me at ease....I was beginning to worry about the loss of my hair (It took 10 years to grow, and 10 minutes to cut off). I had begun to think that I could have saved that 10 years of growth and put it to good use! LOL Thanks JM

I don't know if it will make you feel any better but all hair falls out after a certain period of time - so our current head of hair though uncut may only be a couple of years old at most. The reason our hair on our arms is so short is that it drops out sooner than the hair on our head. Growth rate is critical in length of hair but also how long a hair cell lives before being replaced. In general you are losing about 100 hairs a day that are replaced with new hair. I think our skin is replaced in total about every 7 years.... A little B.S., a little rationalization, etc.