Alternative Kilns & Firing Techniques: Raku * Saggar * Pit * Barrel (A Lark Ceramics Book)

An interesting book for anyone interested in firing clay work. This book offers different ways to make kilns, shows you what you need and how to construct each kiln. Photo's of work fired is amazing,giving information on how the pot was fired and what was used to achieve the surface/colour etc.

Present. Mother taking up pottery again after 3 decades. Said there were a few ways she could make a kiln without shelling out most of her retirement fund. Father also found it an interesting book to read, hes an engineer and found it had some detailed technical info in it too. On the whole both thought it was a well thought out and practical introduction to alternative kiln methods.

This book is an absolute gem. It is full of clear concise information about the different firing techniques. It provides great step by step photos and is explained really well. It also gives you some of the recipes used to create the pieces. I can’t wait to start trying out the Raku firing.

This book offers a multitude of tips, photos and help with saggar, raku, barrel and pit firings. It also has recipes for glazes, terra sigillata and includes advice on burnishing that is more detailed and sophisticated than other books I have encountered.I found this book so full of well-written advice and easy to follow steps that it has inspired me to try some of them out. Few books have this effect on people so I would recommend it without reservation.

I haven’t used it in practice yet but this had good reviews from other potters

Really interesting read although the build for some kilns is a little beyind me (Igather there are kits available for these anyway). I found the explanations of each of the processes really informative. A great book if you like me want to understand the processes better. Really well written.

A planed smoke firing.

I have a couple of friends who enjoy pottery/sculpting and so forth but have limited space and money when it comes to kilns. This book is the answer to their problems. I paint, I don't sculpt etc. but I found it interesting and the illustrations of finished works by professionals are brilliant. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in this aspect of art.