SB: Global Earth Pigment Exchange (was re: Lime Plaster Tint Suggestions + re: Undies cookers)

[Robert W Tom <archilogic@juno.com>]

on Wed, 30 May 2001 tms@northcoast.com wrote:
re: Undie cookers

> What about just using a simple solar box cooker ?
> ... water in pot, lid on, place in box cooker
>... just think ... "undie cookers" ... if it works for diapers 
>  it can work for clothes

"Hmmm ... I wonder what Charmaine's cooking for dinner ?"
(says he as he sees pot cooking away in Charmaine's solar box 
cooker, walks over , lifts the lid and surreptitiously scoops out
a ladleful to taste,  whereupon he is heard to utter) 

      "Plllltttt ! Ee-ee-wwwww!  
       Don't think I'll be staying for dinner."   

Charmaine also wrote:
Re: Lime Plaster Tint Suggestions?

> I used a pure red adobe colored clay (harvested from the site 
>...other soils could work, , a yellow clay will give a goldish
color..etc.
>The lime and clay will bond nicely making a cement of its own.
>My own local clay did not have the rich brown adobe color, so I was
happy
>to find dirt that did!

Since different regions will have coloured clay which may be unique to
that
region and since this List is global in scope, we have a potentially
unlimited
pallete of earth pigments from which we could draw. 
(Ever drooled over the sexy earth-plasters in Beel's photographs ?)

With the magic of scanners and/or digital photography + the Web,
it would be possible to create an on-line catalogue where images of
sample earth  colours (contributed by Listmembers from around the globe) 
could be posted along with contact information so that anyone could make 
a request for the coloured earth of their choice, and the cost would be
that 
of shipping + perhaps some sort of token of appreciation for the Dirt
Shipper. 

Since the ubiquitous 5 gal plastic pail (as used for drywall  mud,
cooking McGrease for McFries, contractor's bulk paint)
is a universally-available item which poses a waste-disposal problem, 
this would seem to be a good choice for a recyclable shipping container.

Since people on this List always make their plans well in advance (right
?)
there wouldn't be any rush for shipment so creative/inexpensive methods 
could be devised to get the material to its destination. (ie perhaps in
the 
manner that we used to get around in the Olde Days (hitch-hiking) ?

                 ===    *     ===
Robert  W. Tom          Kanata, Ontario, Canada       
Rob_Tom@ErehwonDesignGroup.intranets.com 

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