We've been doing pottery for over 60 years. In our family workshop we hold workshops, and our pottery is sold in various countries around the world
For this reason, wares fired in wood coal fired kilns are often placed in the kiln into saggars, ceramic boxes, to protect them
Modern kilns powered by gas or electricity are more easily controlled than older wood or coal fired kilns
In a Western adaptation of traditional Japanese Raku ware firing, wares are removed from the kiln while hot
Unfired pots are first brought to the place where a mound will be built, customarily by the women and girls of the village