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When they start firing and when they introduce more fuel is the only time they get that smoke coming off. "There's usually a breeze through the river area, so it doesn't hang around. "I wouldn't say there's a huge pall of black smoke," she adds. "It's the most incredible black thing you've ever seen in your life," says Munroe, who also has made the pilgrimage to Saltillo.īut the tile makers work independently, so its rare when more than two or three kilns are belching at the same time, Wigley says. When several are working at the same time, the cumulative effect can be kind of scary. In other areas, a family will run just one."Ī Saltillo kiln typically produces a small cloud of noxious black smoke. Some manufacturers had a large number of kilns. When Wigley visited the valley of the tiles in 1987 to see the process in action, she saw "miles and miles of tile. In Saltillo, burning tires is "a recycling thing, part of the way they've done things for years and years." "That's what makes Saltillo tile distinctive," says Penny Wigley, who runs The Clayground ceramics studio in Phoenix. The flame then goes to work on the next closest source of oxygen, the iron oxide in the stacked tiles, which burns and gives the tile its trademark peach coloring. The high heat produced by the burning rubber eventually robs the kiln's interior of oxygen. Until recently the fuel for the three-day firing process has been shredded car tires and inner tubes. (Saltillo is about 60 miles west of Monterrey, in Coahuila state, which adjoins Texas.) The clay is mixed with water and pressed into wooden forms, then stacked, cured outdoors for several weeks, then fired in kilns that have been excavated into the banks of a river that runs through the area. The process that results in Saltillo tiles starts with the area's clay soil which in its natural state resembles chocolate ice cream. "What's happening is, Mexico is cleaning up its act," says Bonnie Munroe, a staffer at the Mexican Tile Company in Phoenix. So say local tile retailers, who for months have been hearing about the change from their suppliers. The change to natural gas or other fuels will alter the appearance of the tiles-which are already handmade, one-of-a-kind items-and raise the price.
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The reason? The tile makers fire their kilns with old automobile tires, a practice that the Mexican government has banned.
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Pat said: "We'll play a pianovocal gig at the ABC 2 followed by a full band show at the ABC 1.The news from the small river town of Saltillo, Mexico, is Earth-related but not earthshaking: The clay tiles that are the area's most famous export-and a popular flooring material for Arizona patios and kitchens-are going to be changing.
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Hue And Cry unveil the album at the History City Xmas Weekend at the ABC in Glasgow on December 18 and 19. But peace on earth is not a bad aspiration." "Two Little Boys tells how the wounded lay dying in the Somme.but it could easily apply to Iraq or Afghanistan. We've done it in a Tom Waits or Randy Newman style and changed the lyrics to reflect current wars. John Lennon sent Rolf a letter congratulating him on topping the charts with an anti-war song. Pat, who met Rolf at an awards bash and asked if he could cover the track, said: "Two Little Boys was No.1 at the height of the Vietnam War. The song will appear on the new Xmas Day album, out on November 30. "The song could be a careerdefining or career-ending moment." Musical brothers Pat and Greg Kane say it is one of the best tracks they've recorded but Pat admitted: "We'll either soar like a shooting star or crash like a meteor. HUE AND CRY have recorded an anti-war anthem for Christmas - the Rolf Harris classic Two Little Boys.