Clay Firing Tips

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Hi, I'm Chitrolpola speaking on behalf of Expert Village and I'm from Hartspice, India. All this time, we've been talking about how the processing of terracotta, of ceramics is done. And we have mentioned that we have to put the, load the things that we make into the furnace and raise the temperature and keep it in the furnace for seventy-eight hours, seven, eight, nine hours. Now you have to be very careful when you are raising the temperature or controlling the process. Because sometimes, any small negligence, or maybe water trapped in the body of the ceramic piece, you can really have some bad misfires. For instance, I'd like to show you apiece over here, which went wrong. As I was saying, there can be many misfires and if you are not able to control the temperature, you cannot control the glaze properly and there is unnecessary water, then you know it can be quite unpredictable and can be completely wasted. Now, this has to be reworked. This is one of the finest, funny, fun parts of ceramics; you are never sure what will be the ultimate outcome. Sometimes the outcome is very beautiful. You know you get glazes that you didn't even dream of getting and the final product is excellent. And sometimes you have things like this, where you have a very different idea of what you want, but you end up having a completely spoiled image. Thank you.

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