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For about 30 years, the owner of a remote station in New South Wales has opened her gates to welcome potters from near and ...

In Japan, raku pottery is reserved for tea ceremonies ... systems and recycled objects to produce a desired result. The kiln is a recycled 55-gallon drum, from which sufficiently heated pots ...

Or snowstorms. Two weeks ago, his kiln fire went out during the cold snap. His work was lost. For several years, Mr. Warfield was known for raku pottery, a Japanese style of firing. The American ...

That was when he bought a special raku kiln in order to teach students in his pottery classes, and fell in love with the art. "It's just the unlimited possibilities and the unpredictability of the ...

He sets the pieces in the cans, a student assistant adds newspaper to create smoke, and art teacher Neel Webber quickly covers them to put out the fire and let the smoke do its work on the pottery.

His vases, pots and ceramic vessels, which are thrown by hand and fired using a raku process, are placed in the kiln at a lower temperature — a mere 1,200 degrees compared with the 2,400 degrees ...