Description
Book Raku Pottery Workshop
On our Raku days you will have 3 different techniques available to try which are described below. You will be doing 3 pots each depending on the size you make them, and you can do a different technique on each pot, or focus on 1 or 2 techniques, the choice is yours!
To book, choose the date and time of the Raku Workshop you would like to join and add to basket. There are 10 places available but be quick as they book up fast!
Make sure you include your email address and telephone number so we can contact you before the course starts with everything you need to know about getting to us, parking, workshop organisation, and admin. If you forget, no problem, simply email us with your contact details.
This will be £120 for the day, 10am-4pm (finish time is approximate).
Glazed Raku
You will choose from a selection of Raku glazes to decorate your pots. You will take your pots out of the kiln whilst still very hot and put them into a bucket of sawdust and sealed. You’ll then have the option to submerge your pots in water to produce more glaze crazing. The blue and copper pot in the images is one of our favourite examples of a glazed Raku pot produced on one of our Raku days.
Saggar Firing
The no glaze technique of using various materials and chemicals on the clay, wrapping the pot in a tin foil jacket or ‘saggar’, and firing to produce some beautiful and unpredictable colours and patterns. Burnished pots work very well, but unburnished will also work just fine. The black and pink pots in the images are beautiful examples of Saggar fired pots made at our workshop.
Naked Raku
Naked Raku can refer to different techniques, but in this case we will be heating the pots up in the kiln, and then removing them at around 700 degrees before burning items such as horse hair, feathers and sugar onto the pots to create some beautiful silhouette patterns on the white clay. The black and white pots in the images are some lovely examples.
- You can bring pots you’ve made at home as some of you have home studios now, or you can buy some of our pre-made pots.
- Or, if you wish to make some pots with our guidance, just message us to book some time at the workshop.
- If you’re booked onto one of our 8-week ceramics courses, that is a perfect opportunity to make some pots for a Raku day.
- You’ll be decorating your pots on the day with our materials.
