Clennell on fri 22 may 98
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>-using a wood fired kiln for earthenware would be a lot of trouble for no
>benefit.-
>Fra: David Hendley
>Til: Multiple recipients of list CLAYART
>Dato: 20. maj 1998 13:56
>Emne: Re: FAST FIRE WOOD KILN
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>In my experience, using a wood fired kiln for earthenware
>would be a lot of trouble for no benefit.
>In any wood kiln you will have ashes blowing around and
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Dear woodfirers: Wood can be very nice for earthenware. Two potters that
use wood in Brtain are Clive Bowen- excellent slip trailed earthenware and
the famous Allan Caiger Smith with his beautiful brush work on majolica. I
visited allans kiln which had a firebox on one side of the kiln and the
flame went under the floor and up a bag wall that stretched to the roof,
then over the pots. The long route the flame travelled dispensed with the
ash. Remember wood was used long before other fuels where available.
Why wood? why not?
cheers,
Tony
Tony and Sheila Clennell
Box 10 RR# 2
Wiarton, Ontario
Canada N0H 2T0
phone (519) 534-2935
fax (519) 534-0602
Marcia Selsor on sat 23 may 98
Most, no, all the traditional pottery in Spain was wood fired earthenware, for
lack of any other means of firing. The kilns followed traditions of Roman
barrel vault kilns, Islamic domes, tubular Celtic kilns, and the native
Iberian sort of horse shoe shape. The more low tech kilns fired with brush,
were stacked solid, and got nice flashing. The clay was heavy in fine mica and
wheat colored with glints of mica when fired. The three story wood-fired kilns
in Agost take five days to fire, hold 11,000 botijos per firing. You may not
get wood ash glaze effects but that tends to look more like Tamba pots anyway.
Potters have traditionally used what was locally available to their best
efforts.
Soda fumed earthenware can be damned handsome. That's why we all keep trying
different stuff isn't it?
Marcia in Montana
Clennell wrote:
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> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> >----------------------------Original message----------------------------
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> >-using a wood fired kiln for earthenware would be a lot of trouble for no
> >benefit.-
>
> >Fra: David Hendley
> >Til: Multiple recipients of list CLAYART
> >Dato: 20. maj 1998 13:56
> >Emne: Re: FAST FIRE WOOD KILN
> >
> >
> >----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> >In my experience, using a wood fired kiln for earthenware
> >would be a lot of trouble for no benefit.
> >In any wood kiln you will have ashes blowing around and
> >>
>
> Dear woodfirers: Wood can be very nice for earthenware. Two potters that
> use wood in Brtain are Clive Bowen- excellent slip trailed earthenware and
> the famous Allan Caiger Smith with his beautiful brush work on majolica. I
> visited allans kiln which had a firebox on one side of the kiln and the
> flame went under the floor and up a bag wall that stretched to the roof,
> then over the pots. The long route the flame travelled dispensed with the
> ash. Remember wood was used long before other fuels where available.
> Why wood? why not?
> cheers,
> Tony
>
> Tony and Sheila Clennell
> Box 10 RR# 2
> Wiarton, Ontario
> Canada N0H 2T0
> phone (519) 534-2935
> fax (519) 534-0602
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