Reports of the death of the British ceramics industry are premature, says Giles Kime.
Although there’s a lot of talk of supply-chain issues, some building materials are closer to hand than is ever acknowledged. Anyone who has ever observed the inner workings of a building made before the 19th century will be aware that the key ingredients had rarely travelled far. Medieval builders used whatever came to hand; soil, sand, animal dung, straw, twigs and strips of wood;…
