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From Our Featured Artist of the Month, the Very Talented Ceramics Artist, Misako Kambe.

Posted on 4/15/2018 10:22:05 PM by Misako Kambe - Comment on this

Woodfire Nobori-gama-kiln in Pope Valley!

Six of us participated in Woodfire 2 chambers Nobori-gama-kiln in Pope Valley
near by the Napa wine country on the 23rd to 25th of March 2018. (Photo1)
Woodfire is in general using wood instead of gas or electricity as fuel.
We loaded plenty of pots in two chambers (Photo 2) then bricked up the door.
Candling all night to slowly rising the kiln temperature to next morning
(photo 3) then very hard to stoking woods until two chambers reached a very high
temperature like 2300c for a total of 30 hours.