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two women standing next to each other in a workshop

A close up of buffel grass

"I just ended up with these enormous piles of buffel grass that we'd pulled out, and knowing that you can make glazes out of grass … and I just wondered what buffel might make,"
Ms Lyon said.

small disc shaped plates with different shades of green, some with flecks some without

A mix of buffel ash and feldspar creates beautiful buffel colours.

"If you just use the pure buffel ash and melt, it will create a kind of a glaze, but it won't have good coverage and it can be a bit chunky and uneven,"
Ms Robson said.

Suzie Lyon, ceramicist at Charles Darwin University, working and experimenting with buffel glaze.

"That hasn't happened with mine. That's quite a different firing. So that changes the colour drastically."

different shaped bowls in different shades of green

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