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Workshops

Sig It ! Terra Sigilata
Thursday, Sept 11, 2008        7pm - 9pm
$20 / 10
Skill Building Workshop

This workshop will focus on terra sigilata.

Terra Sig was used by the Greeks to make their low-fired pottery more impervious to water penetration and to impart a beautiful sheen to it without the use of glaze.  Think of the beautiful classical Greek vases with red or black figures.

Clay takes the form of platelets and, if mixed with water and allowed to settle, the finest platelets will stay in suspension and can be siphoned off for application to wheel thrown or hand-built forms.  It is then burnished to a sheen.

We'll learn how to make the sig and various methods of applying it to our pots.

This workshop will cascade nicely into other low fire techniques such as pit, saggar, horsehair and raku. Pieces that you bring to this workshop can later be fired in one of these methods.

Bring two trimmed, leather hard pieces.  Of course, you can just come and watch if you wish.

Limited to 8 participants, sign up early.

$10 for Creative Clay Residents, Associates and Students
$20 for all others.

To reserve your place call John at 703.750.9437 or Edat 703.750.9480