Fredrick Paget on sun 5 jan 03
Speaking of the largest kiln, Marin County ,California , has a beauty.
It has not been used as killn for about 90 years but it stands there about
a quarter of a mile down the road from San Quentin prison. They used to
make bricks in it from the shale in a huge quarry behind it . The one where
Dirty Harry cornered the killer in his first movie of the series. The
quarry is now the site of Larkspur Landing, an upscale shopping center and
condominium complex.
The kiln and brick factory has been modernized and is now an office park.
The kiln is made of red brick and is an oval tunnel structure that is big
enough to put about 10 TOZAN noborigamas inside end to end. There used to
be a restaurent inside the kiln. We ate there a couple of times.
The entire interior of the kiln has been sandblasted and cleaned out and
the inside is now part of the complex. There is a huge brick chimney at
least 100 feet high outside the oval kiln and the draft went under ground
in a sort of downdraft from the kiln. This brick factory made a great many
of the bricks that were used in reconstructing San Francisco after the
earthquake of 1906.
Fred
From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA
Maid O'Mud on sun 5 jan 03
I just saw an acticle on cbc.ca that claims
"HYTHE, ALTA. - A potter in northern Alberta can lay claim to having the =
largest Japanese pottery kiln in the Western Canada - and possibly in =
the country."
To see the rest of the article, =
http://cbc.ca/artsCanada/stories/kiln030103
Sounds wonderful :-)
Sam - Maid O'Mud Pottery
Melbourne, Ontario CANADA
=20
"First, the clay told me what to do.
Then, I told the clay what to do.
Now, we co-operate."
sam 1994
=20
http://www.ody.ca/~scuttell/
Les Crimp on sun 5 jan 03
Hi Sam --
Happy New Year!
I wonder if the kiln in Hythe, Alberta is as big as our Tozan Kiln in
Nanaimo. The big noborigama has 5 chambers plus the doge and when
completely full contains upwards of 2000 pots.
The Alberta kiln sounds interesting though. Of course, every wood-fired
kiln sounds interesting to me.
Les Crimp on Vancouver Island.
lcrimp@shaw.ca
www.arrowsmithpottersguild.bc.ca
annsemple on sun 5 jan 03
Hey Les,
You should post an email to CBC (artscanada@cbc.ca) attn Adrienne Lamb
and tell her about your noborigami. After all Vancouver Island is part of
western Canada...isn't it??? Yours has to be bigger if the # of pots is
anything to go by.
Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: "Les Crimp"
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Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: largest kiln?
> Hi Sam --
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> I wonder if the kiln in Hythe, Alberta is as big as our Tozan Kiln in
> Nanaimo. The big noborigama has 5 chambers plus the doge and when
> completely full contains upwards of 2000 pots.
>
> The Alberta kiln sounds interesting though. Of course, every wood-fired
> kiln sounds interesting to me.
>
> Les Crimp on Vancouver Island.
> lcrimp@shaw.ca
> www.arrowsmithpottersguild.bc.ca
>
>
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