Raku Workshops

The raku one and half-day workshop are over two weekends and held on Sundays. The first Sunday is to make the pottery (half day between 1.00-3.30 pm.) Then the following Sunday is an exciting day when everyone fires their own pots using this ancient Japanese technique.

The process involves glazing the pots with a special glaze, then placing them into a gas kiln, and bringing the temperature up to 1000 degrees rapidly. When the pot reaches this temperature and the glaze has melted, the pot is then taken red hot out of the kiln, placed in a bed of sawdust and covered. It's in the sawdust that the magic happens - the sawdust causes the glaze to crackle and the unglazed areas to blacken. This glaze effect can also produce some stunning metallic surfaces, especially with the copper glaze. The whole process is immediate and is an exciting way to fire pots.

The second Sunday starts at 10.00am. We’ll start by glazing some of the pots and the first firing takes place around 10.45am. Each firing takes about one and half hours. We usually have 4 firing over the day.

Tea and Coffee is on demand and on the second Raku Sunday is a shared lunch with everyone bringing a dish.

£50 per person

please contact Bill Moore to book a place.

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The next Raku Workshops are:

Raku Summer Workshops 2008

Raku Workshop 7
Sunday 21st September (1pm to 3.30pm) and
Sunday 28th September (10.00am to 5.30pm

New Additional Dates

Raku workshop 8
Sunday October 12th (10am to 1pm) and
Sunday October 19th (10am - 5.30pm)

Please telephone to confirm the availability of spaces.

To view some images from our last raku days, please click below and see the gallery page

Raku Gallery