Ceramics
Ceramics
Tenmoku Vessel — Iron Black
Ceramics
Salt-fired Pot — No. 5
Ceramics
Stoneware mostly — thrown, trimmed, dipped, fired in reduction. Glazes are mixed by the bucket and labeled in pencil. The kiln shed runs hot every other Sunday.
○A small set, photographed on the workshop bench. Tap a card to imagine you're picking it up.
A rough sketch of the process. Skipping the bits where the pot collapses on the wheel.
A speckled stoneware from a quarry near Stoke. Wedged on the bench until the air pockets give up.
Centred at low rpm, opened, pulled in three or four passes. The thinner ones come back another day.
A few weeks of slow drying. Bisque to 990°C — long enough to read a novel beside the kiln.
Tenmoku, ash, oatmeal — dipped or poured. Final fire to cone 10, reduction atmosphere.