lyla kaplan on tue 10 jun 03
in my limited experience, i've never seen a good celadon come out of a wood firing..."a single shard," the award winning teen fiction, is in large part about firing celadons in korea in the 14th century...whole loads were dedicated to achieving only a few pots that got the right reduction.
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Hank Murrow on tue 10 jun 03
On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 07:35 AM, lyla kaplan wrote:
> in my limited experience, i've never seen a good celadon come out of a=20=
> wood firing..."a single shard," the award winning teen fiction, is=A0in=20=
> large part about firing celadons in korea in the 14th century...whole=20=
> loads were dedicated to achieving only a few pots that got the right=20=
> reduction.
> Dear Lyla;
I have gotten pretty celadons in the anagama when I placed them in=20
areas of the chamber that received less ashfall. The glaze is made up=20
from 90% Rhyolite from Williams Lake, BC, and 5% each of Talc and=20
Wollastonite. There is an example at my site, #063 on this page:
http://www.murrow.biz/hank/woodfire-pots.htm
In my doorless fiberkiln I get good ones everywhere in the kiln, as=20
long as I don't fire them so hot they go glossy. I prefer that=20
'congealed muttonfat' that Leach talked about in his book.
Cheers, Hank in Eugene=
Lee Love on wed 11 jun 03
In my small wood fired kiln, I get some pretty high temps in the back, where
the flame comes in (seger cone 10 dead flat. Seger is hotter than orton.)
In my first firing, I used Hamada's Hagi glaze from Leach's book about him as a
liner glaze on my unglazed Shigiraki clay work. This is a glaze Hamada
developed in Kyoto before he move to Mashiko and set up his own kiln. It is
wood ash, straw or rice hull ash, and feldspar. If you check out Phil Roger's
book on ash glazes (hey, Phil is in Mashiko! We get to meet at dinner
tonight), you can find "synthetic" replacements for all these ashes.
I got different effects from this glaze: sometimes looks like nuka,
sometimes like a clear glaze on a white slip, sometimes grabs the kiln ash and
goes green. On other pieces, it turned Chun Blue. I'll continue to use it.
--
Lee Love
Mashiko JAPAN Ikiru@hachiko.com
"Life is an expression not so much of matter as of its informing
pirit." --Joe Campbell
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