A small cup thrown from London construction clay, dipped in wood-ash glaze.

CERAMICS

Ceramic Loop

Start with rescued London clay and make a vessel. Glaze it with local wood ash. Buying glaze would break the rule.

Washing the ash leaves strongly alkaline water, a new waste, which together with crushed waste glass, concrete washout water (about pH 12 to 13) and more London clay becomes a glass composite.

One chain of waste, three products: a clay vessel, a wood-ash glaze, and a glass composite.

This is at a very early stage. Nothing here is settled, and the recipes will keep changing as we test.

The vessel in this loop is made and shown here.

Hand-drawn diagram showing the ceramic loop: rescued London clay becomes a vessel, wood ash becomes glaze, alkaline wash water plus crushed waste glass becomes glass composite.

Early stage. Results published openly as the work develops.

If you want to make or research with us, we are open to it. One studio can only test so many of these swaps, so we work with designers, makers, and researchers who want to take a recipe further.

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