Wood Fired Anagama Kiln

The anagama kiln japanese kanji.

Wood fired anagama kiln.

The spring valley anagama sva is a 100 cubic foot anagama fired by a local community of potters. These types of kilns have been fired traditionally for thousands of years being fired only with wood. Japanese inspired pottery to be used in the tea ceremony tea bowls chawan vases for chabana and ikebana mukozuke dishes for japanese cuisine kaiseki resource for food stylists accompanied by shibori and screen printed textiles for the table and wall. Anagama wood fired pottery by susan kotulak fired in the okidoki anagama.

Since humans first began to understand how fire hardened clay we have been making ceramics both in pits and in wood kilns. My ceramics are either created on a potters wheel or hand built. A 100 non refundable deposit is required to register.

It was built by a small group on private land starting in 2000. Anagama is japanese for hole kiln. They are then wood fired in an anagama kiln. An anagama a japanese term meaning cave kiln consists of a firing chamber with a firebox at one.

The workshop fee is 645. While wood kiln firing isn t easy the results are incomparable. An anagama a japanese term meaning. The anagama kiln is an ancient type of pottery kiln brought to japan from china via korea in the 5th century.