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Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 05 8:43 am Post subject:
It's called pique assiette. Apparently. https://www.thejoyofshards.co.uk/pique.shtml

Will

Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 571
Location: Grenoside, Sheffield

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 05 8:43 am Post subject:

1. Find a field.
2. Bury bits of broken pottery in field.
3. Leave for a couple of years.
4. Return and dig up pottery.
5. Announce significant archaeological discovery to local press.
6. Retire on proceeds of flogging genuine Roman/Saxon/Norman/Renaissance/Ikea artefacts.

Alternatively try sticking it on ebay. Admittedly most of the adverts for broken china involve Pink Floyd, but you can't have everything...

Guest

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 05 9:05 am Post subject:

Thanks for all the ideas!

All of my plant pots, both inside and out have a very generous layer of broken pots at the bottom so I've buried some of my problems away out of sight!
re charity shops - the best stuff goes already, this is the stuff that I wouldn't dare give to them
re mosaic - I don't actually make anything with the pieces, I bought a cutting tool from the USA that I use just to cut them into pieces and sell them as they are (there are loads of things for sale on ebay made by americans with bits of china including jewelry but why would they buy english mosaics and pay for postage when they have their own broken china?)

re scrapscheme, what's that?

Lozzie

Joined: 25 May 2005
Posts: 2595

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 05 9:06 am Post subject:

Do you have anything like an art college or school near you? Or a University, or adult education college? Sometimes they need materials for art courses, including, er ... "pique assiette".

If it were ground up and mashed enough (oooh, that could be fun to do) you could use it instead of gravel or other proprietory granules, say in your greenhouse or coldframe.

Or is there a local craft centre near you? Artists' cooperative?

Try advertising it on Freecycle, or local paper free-ads?

Someone here used it themselves in a nice mosaic floor in their shed:

https://www.turning-earth.co.uk/memory_mosaic.htm

Many schools study the Romans in year 3 (I think). Would they like to do a mosaic with your pottery as part of their half-term project?

Our local museum does education days on the theme of "Archaeology". One of the tasks the children get to undertake is the reconstruction of broken plates and other crockery using plastecine and masking tape.

Oh - a local Scrap Sceme or Scrap Store is basically an organisation - sometimes local authority, sometimes charity-based - who hoard all sorts of stuff that MIGHT be useful to someone for some kind of artistic endeavour. They can be used by anyone from local playschemes to the afore-mentioned adult education colleges. Where abouts are you?

https://www.home-education.org.uk/scrap.htm

Hope this helps

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45723
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 05 9:10 am Post subject:
Good question, I've often wondered the same

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 05 9:12 am Post subject:
Sell it to Greek restaurants?

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 05 9:15 am Post subject:

Judith wrote:

Sell it to Greek restaurants?

I'd have thought they've got enough already

EmptySeas

Joined: 06 May 2011
Posts: 3

Posted: Fri May 06, 11 8:42 am Post subject: CROCKS
I'd gladly take some off your hands! I'm sure you could sell/give away some of your surplus as crocks for potting.

kirstyfern

Joined: 03 Jan 2010
Posts: 1574
Location: Great Dunmow, Essex

Posted: Fri May 06, 11 8:58 am Post subject:

Will wrote:

Use them as crocks in the bottom of plant pots for drainage?

BUT you must remember when emptying the pots the next spring - I just got a nasty cut scooping the soil out by hand forgetting that I put a broken pot in the bottom last year

I've now replaced the broken china with woodchips to avoid this happening again.

My local tip has a 'hardcore' skip, I put any broken china in there now.

kirstyfern

Joined: 03 Jan 2010
Posts: 1574
Location: Great Dunmow, Essex

Posted: Fri May 06, 11 9:01 am Post subject:
I've just remembered that my local cricket club are having a 'china smash' stall and are looking for chipped plates, etc, check with the local fete organiser as they might have one too

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Fri May 06, 11 9:02 am Post subject: Re: CROCKS

EmptySeas wrote:

I'd gladly take some off your hands!

The original post was from 6 years ago, so he might not have any any more

I've moved this to the recycling section.
A.

EmptySeas

Joined: 06 May 2011
Posts: 3

Posted: Fri May 06, 11 9:23 am Post subject:

kirstyfern wrote:

Will wrote:

Use them as crocks in the bottom of plant pots for drainage?

BUT you must remember when emptying the pots the next spring - I just got a nasty cut scooping the soil out by hand forgetting that I put a broken pot in the bottom last year

I've now replaced the broken china with woodchips to avoid this happening again.

My local tip has a 'hardcore' skip, I put any broken china in there now.

Ouch; nasty!

Terracotta's a little more forgiving (especially if sea/river-water tumbled)...but then if you've access to that, you've got ready access to other forms of drainage!

EmptySeas

Joined: 06 May 2011
Posts: 3

Posted: Fri May 06, 11 9:24 am Post subject: Re: CROCKS

Barefoot Andrew wrote:

EmptySeas wrote:

I'd gladly take some off your hands!

The original post was from 6 years ago, so he might not have any any more

I've moved this to the recycling section.
A.

Thanks...and true; but if OP still works in the same place...

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Wed May 25, 11 4:57 pm Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

It's called pique assiette. Apparently.

https://www.thejoyofshards.co.uk/pique.shtml

You could build a whole chapel out of it! Linky

ellie500

Joined: 26 Apr 2011
Posts: 37
Location: St Athen Barry

Posted: Thu May 26, 11 2:13 pm Post subject:
if you lived near me i would take some of your hands i also like to mozaic you could freecycle them el

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