51. Raku and Pitfire Workshop

Every second year (when not hit by Corona lock-downs) we have a big Raku & Pitfire Festival with workshops, training and a lot of testings and good time with like minded ceramic artists.

This time I was invited to have a workshop about pitfire.

In this video I will show some of all the great things we did at the Raku and Pitfire workshops.

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INDEX:
00:00 Welcome to the Raku & Pitfire Festival
01:00 Setting up the festival
01:24 Information about the location
02:40 Setting up the Pitfire Barrels
02:48 A new Pitfire Barrel - with a chimney
04:17 Raku & Pitfire exhibition
05:22 First day of the Raku and Pitfire events
05:52 Preparing for the Pitfire fire
06:16 Preparing the Pitfire Barrels
06:41 Packing up all the pottery with color materials
08:54 Packing the oil drums with pottery - ready to fire
09:44 Fire the Pitfire
11:08 Maintaining the Pitfire Fire
12:14 Saggar fire in a Raku kiln
13:59 Getting better draft in the Pitfire kiln with the chimney
14:48 Time to relax
15:45 Flash Fire
16:42 Copper Matte reduction
17:25 The Pitfire Oil Drums are ready to close up
13:37 The third day
22:50 Unloading the Pitfire kilns
25:22 The end of the Raku & Pitfire event