The technical side - how it works:
If you make pottery from scratch, we will prepare clay by wedging it for you and rolling it in slabs ready for use.
After you have made your masterpieces, we will let it dry slowly to avoid cracking. Depending on the items made and the weather this could take up to two weeks.
After drying it will be added to the other pots going into the kiln. We prepare an entire load at a time, and that can take up to a month to fill up the kiln.
The first firing is a bisque firing, which goes up to between 960 and 1060 degrees Celcius.
Now we let things cool down, unpack, and sand everything down. We wax the feet to prevent it sticking, we sponge the dust off, we paint what we need to paint, we glaze using the glazes you selected and start packing the kiln again.
When the kiln is full, we fire up to 1060 degrees Celcius again, which is called Earthenware temperature. Afterwards it cools down again, we unpack, send you an e mail - and we will keep it for up to 6 months safely boxed while you arrange collection
If you paint our ready made ceramics:
As most people paint a little bit on the heavy side (the paints do not show their true colours until after firing, so if you are inexperienced you are not going to believe us when we say "paint lightly"!), we have to do what is called a "fire-on" to harden the paints onto the ceramics
This we do in the bisque firing, which goes up to between 960 and 1060 degrees Celcius.
Now we let things cool down, unpack, and sand everything down. We wax the feet to prevent it sticking, we sponge the dust off, we paint what we need to paint, we glaze using the glazes you selected and start packing the kiln again.
When the kiln is full, we fire up to 1060 degrees Celcius again, which is called Earthenware temperature.
Afterwards it cools down again, we unpack, send you an e mail - and we will keep it for up to 6 months safely boxed while you arrange collection
Mosaics can be taken home immediately, you just need to do a bit of soft polishing at home when it is completely dry
For the little ones who does not understand delaying gratification as yet, we have Ceramic Painting with craft paints, which dries very fast and can be taken home with you
If you make pottery from scratch, we will prepare clay by wedging it for you and rolling it in slabs ready for use.
After you have made your masterpieces, we will let it dry slowly to avoid cracking. Depending on the items made and the weather this could take up to two weeks.
After drying it will be added to the other pots going into the kiln. We prepare an entire load at a time, and that can take up to a month to fill up the kiln.
The first firing is a bisque firing, which goes up to between 960 and 1060 degrees Celcius.
Now we let things cool down, unpack, and sand everything down. We wax the feet to prevent it sticking, we sponge the dust off, we paint what we need to paint, we glaze using the glazes you selected and start packing the kiln again.
When the kiln is full, we fire up to 1060 degrees Celcius again, which is called Earthenware temperature. Afterwards it cools down again, we unpack, send you an e mail - and we will keep it for up to 6 months safely boxed while you arrange collection
If you paint our ready made ceramics:
As most people paint a little bit on the heavy side (the paints do not show their true colours until after firing, so if you are inexperienced you are not going to believe us when we say "paint lightly"!), we have to do what is called a "fire-on" to harden the paints onto the ceramics
This we do in the bisque firing, which goes up to between 960 and 1060 degrees Celcius.
Now we let things cool down, unpack, and sand everything down. We wax the feet to prevent it sticking, we sponge the dust off, we paint what we need to paint, we glaze using the glazes you selected and start packing the kiln again.
When the kiln is full, we fire up to 1060 degrees Celcius again, which is called Earthenware temperature.
Afterwards it cools down again, we unpack, send you an e mail - and we will keep it for up to 6 months safely boxed while you arrange collection
Mosaics can be taken home immediately, you just need to do a bit of soft polishing at home when it is completely dry
For the little ones who does not understand delaying gratification as yet, we have Ceramic Painting with craft paints, which dries very fast and can be taken home with you