01.04.2015
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Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
A Chicago potter’s somewhat slanted view of clay & play |
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Gary Jackson: Fire When Ready Pottery
Lillstreet Studios ∙ 4401 North Ravenswood, Chicago, Illinois 60640 ∙ 773-307-8664 gary@firewhenreadypottery.com |
Love these mugs. Salt? Would like to see a close up of one. Thanks for the blog and congrats on bring no 1.
KATE –
Close… they’re soda fired. Very similar to salt firing, without quite the harmful fumes burning off. I use a mixture of soda ash & soda bicarbonate instead of salt. Salt firing gives a little more “even” of a shine, where soda firing is a little more uneven and has some more “orange peel” texturing going on. Unfortunately, I no longer have these mugs so I can’t show you a close-up photo of them. But if you are on Pinterest, you can do a search for Fire When Ready Pottery and I have a couple Albums going there. I think you might like the one about Textures. There are some good close-up photos there of the stamping & soda firing. Here’s the link… http://www.pinterest.com/garyjackson1353/fire-when-ready-textures/ And thanks for the congrats… I was pretty excited when I found out!!!