clay looping

[RA336@aol.com]

Sarajane
you wrote:
> I use a process called caning, in which colored
>clays are
 >placed to form visual images, then squeezed and manipulated >into a long
> tube of clay, which can be sliced to form hundreds of >intricate
repititions.

- this sounds alot like the technique I saw being used by a ceramicist 
named
Jane Peiser while I was studying at Penland. Did you go there, or pick up
your technique elsewhere, or stumble upon  it yourself?

best
RA