On holiday what do most people do, visit a pottery community of course. Essaouira is a coastal town 176 kilometers from Marrakesh and Safi is 121 kilometers north from there. The only way to get there was in a taxi, the road follows coast, miles of beautiful beach crying out for surfers, there was onlyContinue reading “Safi Pottery town in Morocco”
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LATE SUMMER FIRING
Planned for the Friday but cancelled due to weather, I decided the Saturday looked better in the forecast. The decision was a good one and Saturday turned out to be clear and very warm. I wanted/ needed to do this solo to increase my knowledge of the kiln. I needed to finish the firing beforeContinue reading “LATE SUMMER FIRING”
SPRING WOODFIRING ( Stoneware ).
Making the odd stoneware pot and all the underfired stuff from last time was just enough to fill the kiln with a very loose pack. In this firing were the new extruded bottles . For the last millennium it had been rainy so was preparing for Easter Saturday to be wet, the sun came outContinue reading “SPRING WOODFIRING ( Stoneware ).”
Whitecroft Pottery 