Raku pottery full day workshop, the shire workshops
Raku pottery full day workshop, the shire workshops
Raku pottery full day workshop, the shire workshops
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Raku Pottery Workshop

£120.00

In this 1-full-day workshop (10am – approx. 4pm), you will glaze and fire 3 pots.
Bring your own that you made at home or in the 8-week Explore Ceramics course, or you may purchase 3 blank pieces from us (about £5-£10 each depending on size).

  • Learn 3 different Raku techniques (See description below).
    You can do a different technique on each pot, or focus on 1 or 2 techniques, the choice is yours!
  • Learn different firing techniques including using combustible materials, rapid cooling, and cleaning of pots.
  • At the end of the day, you will take home your finished Raku pots!

Choose the date and time you would like to join. There are 10 places available but be quick as they book up fast!!

If no dates are available, get in touch to register your interest for future dates.

Once booked, you will receive a welcome email a week before your class/course starts with more details and directions.

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Description

Learn 3 Different Raku Techniques

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 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 picture below 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 un burnished will also work just fine. The black and pink pots in the picture below 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 bottom right picture below are some lovely examples.

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