Wood-firing is a choice today with all the other possibilities of electric, gas, oil kilns etc. Wood-firing takes a lot of labor for nights and days. People who get into this will do this for the rest of their lives, because the pieces have an extraordinary beauty.Wood firing is ... Continue Reading
I am back again in Mashiko preparing for the Fantastic Fire workshop. Rob Muylaert, also a Dutch participant, visited me in Kamakura and together we came earlier to make pots for the firings. This is Rob and Swanica at the wheel at the International Tougei Club from Furuki-san ( ... Continue Reading
Some results from the horsehair firing in an oil kiln. Tall s-line vase. A bowl plate. The colors of the ferric chloride developed well. A round little vase. “Cloudy sky” bowl plate. Square Vase. You clearly can see the smoke from the burning of the horsehair in ... Continue Reading
A noborigama is a multi-chambered climbing kiln built on a slope. Each succeeding chamber is situated higher than the one before it. The chambers in a noborigama are pierced at intervals with stoking ports. Climbing kilns have been used in Japan since the 17th century. The main ... Continue Reading
I got my first 3 wonderful vases “hanaire” out of a noborigama firing fired by the Tokyo Nippon Tougei Club. On this Hanaire the front got a lot of fly ash, natural ash glaze. The effects of the firing on a pot are called “Yohen”: wood-fire effects. Shize ... Continue Reading
The big Anagama at Furuki-san`s Center is being fired by a Sunday Pottery Club from Tokyo, “Nokano-Nitiyou Kai”. It took 2 days to fill the kiln with about 1000 pieces: some big ones, but a lot of small ones. The kiln fires on wood and it takes 5 days to fire and 7 ... Continue Reading
