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Wabi Pottery

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What happens inside a kiln

A look at the two firings, the slow cooling and the surprise of opening the door.

The studio began in a garden shed with a second hand wheel and a kiln that needed coaxing. We now work from a bright workshop with three potters and a very patient cat.

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Every piece starts as a lump of local stoneware clay. We throw it, trim it, dry it slowly and fire it twice, first to bisque and then to nearly thirteen hundred degrees.

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