Common dinnerware shapes were mugs, cups, tumblers, plates, bowls (covered and uncovered), tureens, casserole dishes, trays, teapots, and pitchers.
Artware shapes included vases of various sizes, ashtrays, hooded candle holders, planters, incense pots, candelabra, and lamp bases.
In a 2004 account Lasky wrote: "The first thing I did was to take away all the Pre-Columbian patterns they had been working with and in my halting Spanish told them they were now free to design anything they wanted at any time.
They were obviously shaken; for them 'designers' were either god-like people or Americans and they immediately began to copy the cheap seconds that at that time flooded Puerto Rico.
"Little by little I began encouraging them to use 'found tools': a broken hair comb - I picked up from the floor in front of them, used and discarded pencils - showing them the faceted sides and rounded eraser end as options.
I would wait until they had left for the day to go into the damp room where the daily work was placed for slow initial drying to see what creatively had emerged.
Imagine, if you will, the profound thrill I would experience as with each ongoing week the design 'personalities' of each would become more strongly expressed so that it was no longer necessary to look for each signature to determine whose work it was.