Week 9(&10) Lab Journal
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Week 8: Firing Pottery: Straw, Saw Dust, & Bark
Zoe Orlin, Holland Votaw, Zachary McCrary This week in lab, we constructed fire-pit kilns in order to fire pots we had made under the guidance of ceramics professor Kelly Connole the previous week. We had spent the previous week learning about Anglo-Saxon pottery and its chaine operatoire. Specifically, the entire process that must be undertaken…
Week 8: Making Dirt Hot
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Group A Lab Data
For our lab this week, we fired pots we made last week in kilns we constructed. The pots were made of “arb clay,” or clay extracted from the college’s arboretum, and from standard, regular clay that a beginner might work with due to its ease of handling. We were broken up into three groups to…
Group E Pottery Firing
In this lab our combined group of 8 came together to attempt a bonfire firing of 17 pots made from a variety of clay bodies that we formed and dried over the past week. We selected 4 of those pots for specific attention and data gathering: two made from a pure clay dust and two…
Week 8 Lab
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Group F Week 8 Pottery Data
The week 8 lab was a two-day lab event that involved the firing of basic pots in a two stage camp fire and then another day for the fire to be smothered. This experiment was conducted as a joint operation with group E and our data should therefore be near identical. On the first day…
Week 8 Lab Journal
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Week 8 Lab: Pottery Firing
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Week 8: Pottery Part 2
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