Marcia Selsor on tue 19 jul 05
I find that turkey feathers..down like feathers work best. Some can
be 6 inches long.
I lay them out onto a long strip of fiber and roll my pot onto them.
I get a well distributed pattern.
Marcia Selsor
On Jul 19, 2005, at 9:42 AM, fireblazepottery wrote:
> --- bill edwards wrote:
>
>> How many have tried feathers the same as firing horse
>> hair pottery? I would be interested in seeing some
>> sights.
>>
>> Bill Edwards
>> Edmar Studio and Gallery
>>
>>
> Bill and all,
>
> I have been lurking for about a year. Bill's post touched an area
> where I have done some work so I thought I would finally chime in.
> By way of intro, I have been working in clay for about 5 years. I
> live in Graham, Washington. I retired last year after 29 years in
> the Air Force and can now spend all my time playing in clay. Life
> is great!
>
> Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I've tried feathers on a few
> pieces, similar to horsehair. I used peacock feathers as well as
> some from our birds (we have 2 Eclectus Parrots and a Cockatiel).
> Also, my group tried peacock feathers at Raku Ho'olaule'a last year
> and there is a picture in the Clay Times article Boni Deal wrote
> this month, page 15. This was a peacock feather. The biggest
> problem with feathers is that they are usually too concentrated so
> you often end up with just a blob of black. If you can find a
> feather that is more open, like the bottom portion of the peacock
> feather, it work much better.
>
> I have also used feathers in tinfoil saggar with much better
> results. There is a picture of a disk I did with a peacock feather
> in my webshots album, page 2, row 4, 1st picture.
>
> http://community.webshots.com/user/tgarrity1
>
> I still got too much black with the top of the peacock feather -- it
> would have been better if I had fired it a little longer. For
> saggar, I have gotten the best results with the small, down-like
> feathers from my birds. I put about 3 of these feathers in a small
> saggar piece. I'll put a picture on webshots of the only pieces I
> have left (the others were much better but already sold or were
> given to my family). It should show up at the end of my pictures on
> webshots. It will take me about an hour to take the picture and get
> it on the site.
>
> It's fun to experiment and the good thing about horsehair type
> firing is that if you don't like the results, you can burn the
> carbon off and try again.
>
> Wanda Garrity
> Fireblaze Pottery
> Graham, Washington
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