Always busy hands at Greenfield Village

Artist Alex Pratt puts designs into the porcelain clay at the Pottery Shop. This month the porcelain pieces will be fired in the wood kiln, which is only used twice a year.

Zoe Schrager, 11, of Miami, left, watches Anne Borrello etch a decorative design into a red clay dish at the Pottery Shop at Greenfield Village. The dish has not been fired and the red clay is covered with a thin layer of clay called slip, clay with oxides that turn a color when the piece is fired. Borrello has been a pottery artist for about 25 years.

Anne Borrello etches a decorative design into a red clay dish at the Pottery Shop. The dish has not been fired and the red clay is covered with a thin layer of clay called slip, clay with oxides that turn a color when the piece is fired.

Anne Borrello etches a decorative design into a red clay dish at the Pottery Shop at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich. on Sept. 7, 2017. The dish has not been fired and the red clay is covered with a thin layer of clay called slip, clay with oxides that turn a color when the piece is fired. Borrello has been a pottery artist for about 25 years.

Anne Borrello etches a decorative design into a red clay dish at the Pottery Shop at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich. on Sept. 7, 2017. The dish has not been fired and the red clay is covered with a thin layer of clay called slip, clay with oxides that turn a color when the piece is fired. Borrello has been a pottery artist for about 25 years.

A bull calf born two days ago nurses with its mother, Trillia, before they are brought out of the rain into the barn at Firestone Farm at Greenfield Village. At the gate is presenter John Forintos.

Mary Banks and husband Galen Wood of Ann Arbor peruse the displays at the Davidson-Gerson Gallery of Glass at Greenfield Village. The 1998 piece, at lower right, is Cityscape Bowl by Jay Musler.

The 1998 piece called Cityscape Bowl by Jay Musler is among the works on display at Davidson-Gerson Gallery of Glass at Greenfield Village, which opened in June.

The Davidson-Gerson Gallery of Glass at Greenfield Village traces the history of American glassmaking from the 18th century through the present.

Presenter Debby Krzyske demonstrates how to make a cookie cutter by hand at the Tin Shop.

Presenter Debby Krzyske demonstrates soldering a metal cookie cutter using an alcohol lamp and blowing the flame to melt the solder at the Tin Shop.