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can clay dirt of Georgia red clay when filling?

if so, how or a website with info would be great. Thanks in advance!

It is a tradition of handmade pottery in Georgia, using the native red clay. The only clay mine / mill / factory that I know personally in Georgia in Lizella GA, which is not too far from Macon. I think it is off junction 3 Lizella on I-475, is also the exit Macon State College. Clay is a red clay, Athens area is sold in art supply stores in Atlanta and probably throughout the South. It is known for its workability and drying in a pretty tough state without Oven-Brand. It is not work as well as some tone, if thrown on a wheel, so it is used primarily for the sculpture, as well as coil and sheet formation and a pinch Pots. It is typically used in local schools for them. I have Lizella visited the facility only on the left where it is dug from the earth and crushed and sieved, to cleanse it for use. You can buy very cheaply locally, and because it is a local product is usually one of the least expensive Tone is in Georgia Arts and Ceramics supply stores. If you live in Georgia are interested in digging clay out of your own backyard to make pots, I do not have much advice for you. I'm lazy and let the people at Lizella do all the digging and refining for me. I have found in Lizella see the big machines they used for digging, crushing, screening and re-hydration the sound, but I am sure that in the past, this was all by hand. This page is a brief description of the process … http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/ASK/clays.html "Sound Processing includes mining and pulverizing the shale, making it through a sieve with a specific mesh size, such as 90% pass on a 200 mesh screen (0.074mm Openings) with preserved the largest particles on a 30-mesh (0.59mm opening) balance. In other cases, the material can have, fine by 99.9% than the 325 mesh (0.044mm) can be pulverized. All commercial clays are produced in this process. Clays are therefore not used for cleaning of soils. "That was what I saw in Lizella. You not only have to dig some red clay, which is a set mixed with other garbage. They had veins of pure, hardened clay that they excavated, pulverized powder to, screened through the mesh of varying size, and then mixed with water to produce usable sound. Here is a link that describes the process in a smaller scale, (PDF file) … I tried http://www.baileypottery.com/pdf/ProcessingClayTheEasyWay.pdf some clay from the bed of the creek behind our house digging, when I was a child, and form them into small pinch pots and people. It was not very nice when it dried, and cracked it pretty bad because there are a lot of sand and small Pebbles mixed, and some organic material. If I wanted to try again, knowing what I do now, I would probably try to find the purest sound Vein of wet, I could dig that, a few buckets to take home with him and any tilt in a large pan and mix it with water to make a slip. Then I would settle it by a few screens pour out all impurities and leave the slip and to separate and get rid of the excess water so by scooping much as I could away from the tip, and by evaporation. I would probably not end up with the best quality sound when I finished, but it could be interesting to try. Wait … Here is a site to show and tell how people pretty much uses the same process. I hope that this will help you … http://www.goshen.edu/art/DeptPgs/rework.html

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