Carbon Trapping Ceramics

The action of trapping soot on a ceramic surface often at high points or in spotted patterns and to varying degrees.

Carbon trapping ceramics.

A range of high material prevalence to low material prevalence in any particular area or across a surface. Carbon trapping of course is produced in a reduction atmosphere as are shino glazes. A type of glaze now known as american shino was developed in the early seventies by viginia witt who as part of a project set by the university of minnesota to try and replicate early japanese glazes was the first to add soda ash to a shino type glaze. Some body almost white with no black.

A type of ceramc glaze. Those are the two shinos my studio has the latter is a deeper brown in reduction and carbon traps better than malcom s shino which is white peachy. Some withe black to flashy reds. Carbon trapping is not a mandatory feature of shinos and vice versa.

The action of trapping soot on a ceramic surface often at high points or in spotted patterns and to varying degrees. I almost forgot to mention that. Santa fe nm 87501 505 983 9340 shop art gallery next door and here online. My best carbon trapping was in a small reduction kiln with malcolm davis shino beginning redux at cone 014.

I have a some pieces that are almost all black on the outside. The particular clay. Aug 22 2014 this pin was discovered by virginia piazza pottery. 121 don gaspar ave.

I d hold it there in smoky redux for 10 20 min and then put it in a very slow climb to cone 08 over an hour keeping moderate to heavy black smoke. I don t fire the kilns so no modification of the kiln for me. Discover and save your own pins on pinterest. Are there any techniques that i can use to encourage carbon trapping using malcom s shino and or ct shino.

The following are wood fired questions. Anyway that s my grasp of some of this stuff. The trapped carbon leaves dark shadowy areas in the glaze and is a totally random uncontrolled effect. After all it is soot smoke is carbon based.

The effect is created by fuel firing without adequate oxygen in early stages to build up soot carbon on the surface of ware. Is carbon trapping the same as soot smoke trapping.