In the U.S., we don’t usually wear our hopes, dreams and wishes on our clothes. Well, except for when you want your sports team to win! We don’t weave talismans and protections into our fabric, even when we feel vulnerable to things that affect us. Should we? There is a way to do it without … Continue reading "Adinkra Cloth: Symbols to Tell a Story"

Each bird is about 8cm long, 5cm wide and about 7cm high. These Raku birds are made using the Raku firing technique. The Raku process makes each of them unique as I am never sure exactly how they are going to come out. I build each bird by hand with a white clay, which is quite gritty to survive the thermal shocks of the raku firing processes. I polish the parts that will be glazed as I like a very smooth finish making them very tactile. I biscuit fire my work first in an electric kiln and then glaze the parts that I want to have white. I then fire them in the raku kiln till about 1000C, before opening the kiln, the birds are then put in a steel box with saw dust. Since the box is fairly air tight, the combustion of the saw dust draws oxygen from the clay and produces the black colour in the cracks in the glaze, which is characteristic of Raku. The quoted price is for one bird only link to my esty shop: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CeramicsNHamill?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=811222584

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