NORNSWOOD on fri 10 oct 97
Has anyone tried "hair" in sawdust firing?? I figure it would burn fast but
does it have any effect on the surface? I have access to cat hair, lots!
Jeannie
Wendy Hampton on sun 12 oct 97
I use horsehair for firing but I apply it to a piece coming out of the raku
kiln. Makes black squiggly lines - great effect! I have not tried it in
sawdust tho
Wendy from Bainbridge Island WA
Lyla Kaplan on sun 12 oct 97
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>Has anyone tried "hair" in sawdust firing?? I figure it would burn fast but
> does it have any effect on the surface? I have access to cat hair, lots!
> Jeannie
i once saw some pots that a guy put horsehair on, and later pitfired with
sawdust. it was beautiful - looked just like spalted wood. i don't know if
he put it on when the piece was wet or not...
Jasper Stil on tue 14 oct 97
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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997 09:33:05 EDT, you wrote:
=3E----------------------------Original message----------------------------
=3EI use horsehair for firing but I apply it to a piece coming out of the =
raku
=3Ekiln. Makes black squiggly lines - great effect=21 I have not tried it =
in
=3Esawdust tho
=3EWendy from Bainbridge Island WA
=3E
Neither have I.
There's also another way:
If your fire place is on while it's cold and wet outside, gather your
friends around it- with drinks and delicious snacks-
Get a biscuit pot- white or red- with or without terra sig- polished
or not- depending on your taste- warm it up by the fire place for say
1/2h.
Then lay it carefully using a raku tong in the middle of the fire on
top of the wood pile.
Keep an eye on the pot and the fire going while telling Mel's or
Vince's stories or David's dream, playing guitar or something, eat,
drink...
When the pot is red, say after 1/2 or 1h., have a hair of everyone
present ready, take pot using raku tong out and set it on the tile
outside the center of the fire.
After 1 or 2 mn., try to draw with a hair on the pot, if it burns too
quick the pot is too hot, wait and try again. If you get a long line
with a long hair, then it's right.
Every body can have a try with his/ her own hair, et voila.
You can have a beautiful pot with a beatiful drawing from long, short,
blond, black, red, white hair.
If not satisfied, just undo the drawing in a biscuit load- and have
another nice gathering.
Horse hair works also among others.
Happy day to all.
M. Claire
Cheryl L Litman on wed 15 oct 97
This summer while taking a course where we did a lot of pit firings, one
student tied hay around a terra sig pot before it went in the pit and got
some beautiful lines.
Another was pointing to her just removed, very hot pot, with the earpiece
of her glasses as a pointer and the plastic brushed up against the terra
sig on the pot and "drew a line". She like the effect and continued
drawing on the pots as they came out of the hot pit - to the detriment of
her glasses. A worthy sacrifice, she said!
Cheryl Litman
NJ
On Sun, 12 Oct 1997 09:33:05 EDT Wendy Hampton writes:
>----------------------------Original
>message----------------------------
>I use horsehair for firing but I apply it to a piece coming out of the
>raku
>kiln. Makes black squiggly lines - great effect! I have not tried it
>in
>sawdust tho
>Wendy from Bainbridge Island WA
>
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