Firing Pottery
Burning is not only process, but also an effective artistic tool. By controlling the fire, a ceramist can make of texture, subtle gradations of color and glaze crock. Therefore, despite high achievements of modern industry furnaces, many potters prefer to work with live fire, learn primitive firing – field and earth ovens, “cancer”, capsule firing, and others. Itself the Russian word for “potter” – “grnchar – came from the word “horn” – a primitive oven. Hence the pot, the potter, Gorshenev – master of pottery. In Russia the Potters burned in their products either in the oven, or furnace. From the stories potter mid-1920 it is known that mining because of the summer in the studio too hot to work, if the burn products in the furnace.
In addition, the furnace hearth is safer and requires less attention. But the simplicity and convenience of the furnace does not exempt a potter from the need to have an oven, which is required for drying products. Pottery kiln master is usually built by himself. She put in two bricks to not so much glowed from the outside from the outside it looked like an ordinary Russian stove, drowning in a black – without the tube, but still with some differences. On each side of chela, slightly above it, arranged two holes – an outlet for the smoke, “a” was placed out of bricks laid on edge in two rows that formed on it as least three groove, leaving their holes on the hearth..