[Spit-project] pottery
Virginia Gatling
ginlee at cnbcom.net
Thu Jun 14 12:18:13 PDT 2007
Thanks, I might just try this. I look into an updraft kiln.
Regina
----- Original Message -----
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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