[Spit-project] pottery

[Virginia Gatling]

Thanks, I might just try this. I look into an updraft kiln.
Regina
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From: "gail young" <gwynethb63 at yahoo.com>
To: "Creating period spits" <spit-project at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Spit-project] pottery


>I did this.  I think it says he coiled or pinched his pots and I used a 
>kick wheel.  Perfectly period from about 900's and I HATE pinching and 
>coiling....and slabbing, which is why my apprentices don't have the pottery 
>I have promised them that can't be thrown<G>
>  It was very much worth the trouble of tending the fire to watch the 
> pottery go in greenware and come out chemically changed and "fired". 
> Unlike the man on the website, I lost several pots because of temperature 
> fluxuations.  The pots will explode in the fire so make sure you are ready 
> to duck.  Once was probably enough on this particular experiment for me 
> because I don't like the smoke marks on the finished pieces and I just 
> don't have the time to devote to keeping the fire the right temp.  It was 
> definately a fun learning experience and I recogmend anyone who really 
> wants a taste of what it was like to do pottery in the middle ages go for 
> it.  If I ever decided to fire all my own pottery in a period manner and I 
> had the time and land to devote to it, I'd build a later period updraft 
> kiln...not so much smoke marking.
>  gwyneth
>
> Virginia Gatling <ginlee at cnbcom.net> wrote:
>  I found this to be interesting.
>
> http://users.bigpond.net.au/quarfwa/miklagard/Articles/Pottery.htm
>
> Has anyone tried making pots this way? I think I might try to make one.
>
> Regina
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