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Peiser chose to work in relative isolation from other professional craftsmen in Penland, North Carolina, in the respective wilderness.
"Finding my own way with clay was easier for me because I was out of touch with other current potters and schools of pottery." - Jane Goslin Peiser
Peiser considers her pieces to be utilitarian. Her work is very individualistic, using the millefiore technique. She uses white porcelain clay and colors it with stains and oxides. She makes a sketch first and then proceeds to construct the image in clay, rolling out colored slabs to represent the various parts of the image and then piling them on top of each other. She keeps layering and packing these all together until she has what looks like a big loaf of bread. Peiser slices a piece off with a wire and rolls it larger with a rolling pin. She is now ready to start building a pot inside a plaster mold shape. After the piece is dry, it is sanded and bisque fired, then glazed and fired in a salt kiln. One more low fire firing is done after details are painted on with china paint.