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Saggar Fired Pottery
For the last year I have been experimenting with firing inside a saggar inside my electric kiln. From the start I have to say anything fired in this method I wouldn’t sell as food safe and to make certain of … Continue reading
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Recent Tiles
For a while I have been thinking about tiles as an act of experimentation, they are something that can be created in the fraction of time for throwing, there is a lot less focus that goes into creating them, no … Continue reading
Posted in experimental firing, framing, Research, Saggar, tiles
Tagged ceramics, Saggar, seashells, Slip, terracotta, tile, tiles
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More Saggars
So this week I made some prototype saggar formers and saggars, I mixed my own clay with sawdust, grog from broken pots and some molochite for added strength. Now if I didn’t have a deadline I would let them dry … Continue reading
Posted in experimental firing, Learning, Making, Saggar, Slip
Tagged bud vase, ceramics, clay, cockles, feldspar, homemade, homemade clay, horses tail, making, mares tail, Patrica Shone, porcelain, pottery, Saggar, seashells, seaweed, silcia, Slip, stoneware, terracotta, vase, volcanic, wobbly, wonky pots
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What’s in the Saggar?
For the uninitiated, I should explain what a Saggar is, it is a big piece of pottery that smaller pottery is sealed in. Traditionally this was done in Stoke on Trent to protect the pottery from the coal fire that … Continue reading
Posted in Eperiemental firing, Film, Learning, Research, Saggar, Slip
Tagged blackcurrant, ceramics, charcoal, clay, making, pottery, red fox pottery, Saggar, seaweed, Slip, terracotta, tiles, touching, wonky pots, youtube
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