Heart to Hearth Cookery

Cutting Redware Tiles

After dropping, dragging and rolling the iron filled red clay, the next step was to cut the tiles with a pattern utilizing the clay as efficiently as possible.  Each student in Mary Farrell’s workshop cut eight tiles to use for practice in slip techniques.  The “slip” was powdered clays of different colors that Mary had mixed with water to the proper consistency for the technique. We had two colors-one that appeared a light tan to my eye but would turn yellow on firing and a darker hue.    Visit my website at www.hearttohearthcookery.com