Newspaper Smoke Firing

Thursday morning class has been making porcelain ‘pebbles’ to smoke fire.  A newspaper kiln was made for the smoking, made of woven newspaper. It’s exciting to get outside and involved directly with the firing process and immediate results are always a pleasure.  If anyone has pictures of the finished fired pieces, please send them to [...]

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Museum of Farnham – Kids Smoke Firing Workshop, No 2

Another fabulous Saturday of Smoke Firing for the kids of the Museum of Farnham Saturday Club on 26th June.  Tutored by Caroline Wilson and an enthusiatic group of volunteers, it was another roaring success. One of the children’s account of the event: “We went to Wrecclesham Pottery with museum club.  When we got there we [...]

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Pit Firing

Following the display of work and pictures in the cabinet, it was interesting to see how everyone in the Tuesday evening class was having a great time at their Pit Firing evening in a members garden. The results were great, and some of the pots were out-standing. “Well done” everyone. It must have taken a [...]

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Farnham Museum Club – Kids Workshop

WSP Caroline Wilson ran the first of two smoke firing workshops last Saturday for the Farnham Kids Museum Club. Despite an initial shock at the numbers that turned up for the first session in the morning (we had been told there could be a max of 15 for each workshop, to expect between 8 – [...]

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Smoke Firing

Smoke fired test pieces made by Caroline Wilson, Tuesday morning classes. Great stuff!

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