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Wood-fired Ceramics: Contemporary Practices

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of potters firing with wood, particularly within the last generation. Download Wood-fired Ceramics: Contemporary Practices from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Wood firing is the process in which wood is used as fuel to fire pottery kilns that have been specifically designed for this purpose. In an age when technology has produced kilns capable of attaining high temperatures in a matter of hours, it is perhaps remarkable that many potters choose to build and fire kilns that are labor intensive and require constant attention throughout the entire period of the firing, which may last several days.

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