Along with our latest discovery, cotton, farm women have discovered how to make a soft, light, transparent glass with elaborately painted designs of dragons and such. Absolutely beautiful and decorative. We've interviewed one of the women, (with permission from her husband) about how they've discovered this unique item:
Q: Thank you for speaking with us today. Can you tell us how you made this?
A: You're welcome. I cannot stay very long, my husband expects me back. I must make tea.
Q: Yes alright, but can you tell us exactly HOW you created this glass-like object?
A: Women like me were working out in fields. Cooking, cleaning, tending to the children. The women form it using kaolin, and then it is fired at very high temperatures to make it hard.
Q: Interesting. How long did the whole process take you?
A: I do not know the exact number but it took us from the rise of rosy fingered dawn to black velvet night.
Q: So basically about 24 hours correct?
A: Yes, about 24 hours.
Q: What do you do with the finished product?
A: Traders trade it with people from Europe and the Middle East and India, some sell it to rich aristocrats to use it to decorate their homes.
Q: Thank you very much for your time, but there is one more question.
A: I suppose I can spend one more minute. What is it?
Q: What do you plan on calling this marvelous new ... glass?
A: Porcelain, we have named it porcelain.
Q: Thank you very much Mrs. Wang, we appreciate it
A: You're very welcome, but I must go now.
Thank you reporter for that informational interview. So there you have it, how this new glass, excuse me porcelain, is made.
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