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I took inspiration from the primitive technology youtube channel and managed to make a ceramic pot by extracting clay from mud. The pot looks a bit shit, but it holds water!
Tempted to try and make a bigger one sometime.
would love to see some pictures
This is one that I started a few days ago, its still wet currently and as its winter I doubt it will dry very fast. Want to wait for it to dry a bit more before smoothing it and then leave to completely dry and at some point start a fire in the garden to finish it.
Used a slab of clay as a base and placed leaves around it so that it doesn't stick to the pot as I make it but to also give a bit of a sturdy platform I can pick up and rotate. From a previous attempt picking it up often caused the clay to flex and crack. Although that is probably also due to being pretty poor quality clay, this was done the next day with a different batch that has far better plasticity. Or it could just be that the first one needed more time for water to soak into the clay as it had been pretty much completely dry before.
Using leaves to prevent something sticking seems like it could be a useful method to mould clay against the object. Perhaps a way to make use of the lower quality clay that cracks very easily when trying to shape it normally.
Yooo! Imagine eating soup from a bowl you made. That's so much cooler than it should be!
Soup might be difficult if I wanted to make everything myself, stew I could do though. Ideally would want to make a spoon which I tried with the first batch of clay but it cracked too much. Second batch might be good enough to make a spoon from. Plus getting better at working with the clay would probably help too.
Alternatively just cook the stew and use a pointy stick to get the solid bits and slurp from the side of the bowl to get the liquid.
Not sure on the legality of making crab traps here, line and open nets are ok but I think with a proper trap I think there is stuff about making sure it doesn't catch other things which something made from sticks is clearly not going to meet. Which is a shame as its a lot easier to make that than twisting enough fiber to make a net. Mussels are easy enough to find but I would probably avoid them being filter feeders and its not the cleanest water here, at least a crab you can scoop out its stomach and not eat that bit.
Seconded! I've always wanted to try this.