Cob cob / ceramics

[Paul S. Hetrick]

   > >        this is kind of an aside - maybe pat newberry might know best:  does
   > > anybody know why it is inappropriate to mix straw with clay if one is making


Knowing a bit about firing pots I'll take a guess and say that the air
 trapped with the straw would do bad things when it expanded.  If you
had enough straw that every void had a path to the outside it might 
work.

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