Low-fire ceramics and DIY pottery kilns
Wood fired ceramics. Ceramic crafts and wood-fired kilns, glazes, and clay. Focused on low-tech, low-fire Cone 05 glaze burning. Hobby ceramic, and professional ceramic.
When firing pottery in an electric kiln makes the potter’s life so easy. Why continue to fire with wood? Our fascination for flames was made hundred of thousands of years ago … Continue readingOur fascination for flames and the dawn of man
My new kiln! Or not much of a kiln yet, but here it comes! I just need to flatten this
Make A Simple Tin Can Pottery Kiln And Fire It To 1100 °C – Burning ceramics and glazing pottery … Continue readingMake A Simple Tin Can Pottery Kiln – Fire It To 1100 °C
The coil built Minigama can reach 1200C in about 3 hours, its a experimental mini test kiln … Continue readingMinigama – Coil Building the New Mini Kiln
The family of ceramic fluxing agents, a simplified introduction to the complex topic … Continue reading9 Important fluxes for ceramics
Sacrifice to the kiln Gods – roots and rituals … Continue readingSacrifice to the kiln Gods – its historic roots
Summary of all the books describing wood fired pottery kilns, – design and building technics … Continue readingHow to build a wood fired pottery kiln books
To reach high temperatures in a woodfired kiln you need a schedule, and some understand of he combustion process … Continue readingHow to burn consistently in a wood-fired pottery kiln
The 4 components that makes a glaze: Fluxes – glass-former – stabilizers – colors … Continue readingThe 4 components that makes a glaze
Rebuild an oil barrel to an as an ceramic kiln is done with tree simple hand tools … Continue readingHow to build a wood kiln for ceramics – With an oil-barrel