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: These pieces are hand-built using pinching and coiling
techniques. The clay used is a grogged stoneware called
crank. The grog gives the stoneware its characteristic
rough texture. The clay is fired to approximately 1280
degrees centigrade. Variations in colour, known as "toasting",
result from the overall temperature of the kiln, the proximity
of pieces to kiln elements and occasionally "drifting"
of chemicals from glazed work in the same firing. The
two tall scoops are glazed with a transparent stoneware
glaze inside.
Vessels I and II : These pieces were hand-built using
stoneware and biscuit fired to 1000 degrees centigrade.
They were sprayed with basic white Raku glaze and over-sprayed
with copper oxide mixed with white glaze. They were
then fired to 1060 degrees centigrade in a Raku kiln,
taken out when red hot and covered in sawdust. This
process creates a reduction atmosphere, giving rise
to metallic lustres.
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