The Egg Kiln – Low-Fired Pottery, 750-850 C
How to build the Egg Kiln, find the description here: /coil-building-the-clay-kiln/
Experience firing the Egg kiln: /the-egg-kiln-fire-diary/
750-850 degrees Celsius is my favorite temperature range for ceramics. Lumen Rubrum - meaning "red light" in Latin, at this temperature the pottery shines with a wonderful red glow. "Red is the color of life", in a historic sence the color red representing passion, courage, birth, victory, red is love, and also the color for sacrifice, martyrdom and death. Blod is red, and red is one of our strogest symbolic colors.The color red is no place more beautiful than in the pottery kiln reaching Lumen Rubrum.
Read about Lumen Rubrum Glazes: /lumen-rubrum_glazes-750-850/
The Egg Kiln in pictures:
The Egg Kiln in pictures – Low Fired Pottery. Preheating with a newspaper was not so smart, as it made a lot of ash land on the glaze, and in these low temperatures, ash will not melt into a glaze.
The wares in the kiln
Starting to heat up the kiln, you see ash from the newspaper on the rim of the vase
Feeding the kiln with charcoal
The egg kiln starts to glow inside
Potters in the rain; the weather forecast didn’t look promising for the night, but I expected to be finished burning long before nightfall. However, the weather forecast changed. This time, I was unlucky.
The egg kiln reaches maximum temperature in the fire chamber
The Egg Kiln in pictures – Low Fired Pottery.
The maximum temperature on the ceramic is reached, and from here the kiln gets shut down. I estimate this color to be bright red, glowing, but not turning to orange. The camera settings can make the photo a bit misleading. But if my estimate is correct, the temperature is 750 – 800 degrees Celsius, maximum 850. Also, see the same color inside the cup.
The Egg Kiln in pictures – Low Fired Pottery. – Low-Fired Pottery, 750-850 C