{"id":71,"date":"2022-12-02T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themccorrycollection.com\/tmcpottery\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2022-12-02T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T13:00:00","slug":"trying-raku-pottery-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themccorrycollection.com\/tmc\/db\/trying-raku-pottery-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying Raku Pottery For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As stated in the title, we will be trying Raku firing<\/a>! This a new adventure for us as we have never tried Raku, so it will be a unique experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will be doing this course in late December at Montsalvat’s Clay Talk<\/a> in Eltham, Victoria, where we will learn about the techniques of Raku firing and glazing Raku pieces for unique effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are very excited to use the new raku clay body<\/a> specific to raku and learn new firing techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also we are excited to try “Raku firing”, especially considering the possibilities it could open up. Raku firing is incredibly unique, considering it takes handmade pottery to a new level with all the customisations you can make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, adding combustible materials to a raku piece of pottery when red hot creates different effects on the pottery depending on what you use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using leaves, hair, wood or even resting your pottery platter on sawdust can create a burnt black texture on the raku pottery. Or you can carve the piece of raku pottery for more texture differences between the high points and low points in the carving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black Raku Teabowl ‘Shorei’ (Aged Pine) with Crane Design circa 1810 and circa 1838 – \nLos Angeles County Museum of Art <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
How cool is that?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Of course, we have all made pieces in preparation for the course. For example, we created a moon vase and some regular vases out of the raku clay. In addition, I made a platter, and we will wait for the raku to dry and bisque it when it is ready, so it is we are ready for the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the raku pottery is bisque fired, its final firing is in a wood or gas kiln at Montsalvat, and it can be a relatively quick firing process, unlike a conventional glaze firing which can take hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The look of a raku piece of pottery is usually unique to raku because of its low firing temperature and the unusual materials you can use for effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, it could hold some similarities in texture (not in temperature) to a wood-fired piece of pottery, but we have yet to try wood-firing, so that would be a guess, but we do hope to try wood-firing sometime in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading have a good one! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will give an update after the raku firing and how we went! Remember to check out our socials (daily posts!) and leave a comment if you have something to add.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also check out our shop<\/a> as we will be releasing some fired pieces soon and we may in the future make some raku pieces you can buy! Let us know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As stated in the title, we will be trying Raku firing! This a new adventure for us as we have never tried Raku, so it will be a unique experience. We will be doing this course in late December at Montsalvat’s Clay Talk in Eltham, Victoria, where we will learn about the techniques of Raku […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Trying Raku Pottery For The First Time - TMC | Blog","description":"As stated in the title, we will be trying Raku firing ! This a new adventure for us as we have never tried Raku, so it will be a unique experience. We will be d"},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[826],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-pottery","tag-hand-built-pottery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themccorrycollection.com\/tmc\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themccorrycollection.com\/tmc\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themccorrycollection.com\/tmc\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themccorrycollection.com\/tmc\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themccorrycollection.com\/tmc\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themccorrycollection.com\/tmc\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themccorrycollection.com\/tmc\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themccorrycollection.com\/tmc\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themccorrycollection.com\/tmc\/db\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}