Having another go at the ‘hidasuki’ pottery. I still don’t really know how it’s done, what type of clay you need and I certainly don’t have rice straw. But I’m going to try anyway. I used string to tightly wrap Weiterlesen…
Some of the few good pots from this glaze firing…
Instead of having gas hoses attached directly to the burners I changed to copper pipe. I also added a ball shut off valve and two needle valves. While I was at it I also replaced the pressure regulator. The new Weiterlesen…
Here are some pots from my latest glaze firing. The white glaze is a recipe from digitalfire. I’m still learning how to use it. This time I sieved the glaze because I had some problems with big ragged particles being Weiterlesen…
Hidasuki (緋襷) is a style of Japanese Bizen pottery. As far as I can tell the pots are unglazed and wrapped in rice straw before firing. The straw leaves distinctive red lines on the clay. For my experiments I used Weiterlesen…
Years ago I picked up an old electric kiln for free. The insulation wasn’t bad although the kiln was made in the 1970s by a company called DanKiln from Copenhagen. The kiln was made of insulating firebricks on the inside, Weiterlesen…
Here are some small (around 10 to 25 cm in diameter) bonsai pots that came out of a recent firing. Temperature was cone 5 or about 1200 °C on the pyrometer. The glaze is a commercial glaze that I never Weiterlesen…
This article is about how I made tiles for the top of a small coffee table. Because I wanted to have hexagonal tiles for a honeycomb pattern it made sense to make a custom cutter. My first idea was to Weiterlesen…