Clay and Glaze Technology for Beginners No.2

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Pit Firing

Last weekend students from Katrina’s Wednesday and Thursday evening classes got together in one of the National Trust’s woodlands near Haslemere to have a Pit Firing. The NT Foresters kindly dug the pit – 5m. x 1m. x 1m. and supplied all the wood / sawdust / chippings and ferried pots etc from the cars [...]

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Mocha Ware

Inspired by a feature in Jo Connell’s book ‘The Potter’s Guide to Ceramic Surfaces’, we (Sarah and Sandie from the Tuesday Morning class) decided to experiment to see if we could manage similar exciting effects – with fascinating and sometimes dramatic outcomes. The Mocha technique was developed in 19th century England and is so called [...]

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Miracles of Paper Clay

When the top section of Jane’s spiral pot was accidentally broken in the biscuit firing there was no need to dispair.  Following the suggestion of others in the class who’s pots had also come croppers in a biscuit firing, she glued it, with the help of Kathy, back together using paper clay.  In this case, [...]

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