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Workshops

Horse Hair Firing Workshop

$45 / 50

This is an opportunity to learn the technique and take it home with you to reproduce on your own.

Bring your bisque fired pots and learn how to produce distinct pottery with horse hair and iron fuming effects.  Ideally, your leather hard pots should be sprayed or brushed with terra siglliata* and burnished; then fired to cone 08.  This will give your pot the ultimate finish!

Burnishing and terra sig is not required, however... we've seen many pots come out fine that were just made normally.

The pots will be placed into a hot kiln and brought to the correct temperature. They will then be pulled from the kiln, and you will lay horse hair onto your pot making patterns and swirls with your personal flair.

Cost of workshop will include the firing of four pieces of bisque fired pottery, no larger than 9" tall by 5" wide.  No large platters please.  Pots with shoulders, like the one pictured above, work very well.  Additional pieces of that size will be fired for an additional $10 charge.

Maximum 8 participants
What to Bring: Your pots, lunch and a drink.

*There are lots of recipes for Terra Sig.  We are going to add mason stains to our Terra Sig and have several colored horsehair pots!  If we come to the 'right' formula, we'll send it to you before the workshop.

Here's one:

Put 3 1/2 gallons of water in a bucket.  Stir in a tablespoon of sodium silicate or soda ash.  Mix in 17 lbs. of XX Saggar or 9 lbs. OM4 Tennessee ball clay.  Put in a safe place where it won't be moved for a day.  Siphon off the top 1 gallon, including the water off the top.  You can sieve this with a 200 mesh sieve if you like.  Then, dip it, spray it, or brush it on.

Please note that workshops fill up very quickly. Register today!
You can contact us at by phone at 703.750.9480
or email our studio manager oneibull@msn.com