An Experienced Wood Firer Shares Wood Kiln Plans for a Small Instructional Wood Kiln
John Thies has been building, firing and maintaining large wood kilns for more than thirty years. For more than ten … Read More
Tag: firebox
The part of a fuel-burning kiln where fuel gases combust before contacting wares. Gas kilns need little if any firebox, whereas wood and oil kilns produce long hot flames whereas require a large firebox unless flame-flashing and ash-slagging (with wood) effects are sought. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
In the Studio: Empirical Learning
The sound of an entire stack of pots falling over in a wood kiln at peak temperature isn’t as bad … Read More
An Introduction to Fuel-Burning Kilns
Fuels are organic and carbon based, they burn readily. Until recently, all kilns were fuel burning; even now when we … Read More
Two Kiln Designs That Make Smart Use of Waste
By it’s very nature, our art form is not the greenest of artistic endeavors, but happily, many ceramic artists and … Read More
A Guide to the Ceramic Kiln and Various Firing Methods
One of the things all ceramic artists have in common is that we all need to fire our work in … Read More
Five Tips for Successful Stacking in a Salt (or Soda or Wood) Kiln
Long a process of industry, salt firing has also been embraced by ceramic artists and potters because of the beautiful … Read More
Clay Culture: WVO Firings
Waste vegetable oil (WVO) can be used in kiln firings as a sustainable and renewable alternative to petroleum-based fuels. An … Read More
Clay Culture: Petal Kiln
The ceramic world lost a major figure with the death of Danish artist Nina Hole last year. Nina was well … Read More
2015 NCECA Biennial
As the modernist inventors of the collage, assemblage and installation art formats were quick to realize, chance encounters between otherwise … Read More
