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CERAMICS FIRED IN THE HEART OF TEL AVIV
WOODFIRING
Wood-fired oven for firing dishes allows you to achieve very high temperatures (over 1200 degrees Celsius), which provides a special sound. Ceramics very capricious to temperature changes, heating and cooling dishes should be
gradual, but in a wood-burning stove there always remains an element of chance and the uniqueness of the process and result. That is, each time it turns out unique product.
A wood-burning stove, unlike an electric stove, where it is enough to press a button, you need to to heat with firewood from 3 to 8 days, around the clock, without interrupting even for a minute. After several days of firing, the temperature is gradually lowered, putting less and less
firewood. Then for another two weeks, the products cool in the oven.
During a long firing of ceramics with firewood, a lot of ash is released, the smallest particles of which gradually settle on the walls of ceramic products.
Ash covers the vessel with a continuous layer and begins to melt. And this is where it happens - a true celebration of natural beauty. Since the mineral composition of ash different, then melting it becomes different colors, and cooling turns into
a real vitreous glaze with a matte sheen. Colors and pattern
unpredictable and always amazing. In Japan, this firing is traditional and appreciated all over the world.
The way the fire creates an incredible pattern on ceramics, how much the wood-burning process firing is out of control, turns firing into a mystical and unique action.
The value of such a product is that, in fact, it is a joint work of a person and nature. Each product is unique and inimitable. The element itself creates the decor. Some things keep within themselves the pulsation of their creation.