A few of our favorite mugs, cups, and more from our first firing!
Archives for June, 2012
first firing: baskets, bowls and bottles
Our favorite wood-and-soda-fired baskets, bowls, and bottles from our very first firing of our new wood kiln. Next up: mugs, cups, and lidded things! ~Nathan and Becca
unloading
The day of the unloading began with a few preparatory tasks, namely cleaning up and numbering the door bricks for an easy stack-up next time. Not so long ago, I might have rushed to take down the doors, pulled out everything, and then been faced with a giant mess to clean up . . . […]
first firing
Two years, eleven months, and sixteen days after breaking ground on our two-chamber climbing kiln, we lit the first fire. Stacked with over 700 pieces of mostly raw and unfired pottery on 121 kiln shelves, we were ready to see how our creation actually worked! The first couple of days of the firing were fairly […]
first loading
The week+ it took us to load our new kiln for the first time put our kiln shed to the test: rain, rain, rain. Thankfully, we had 1500 square feet (!) of covered space to keep our greenware (unfired pots) dry. Between the raindrops and thunderstorms, we ferried ware boards of pottery to the kiln, […]
