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The Working ShoreWorkshop practices on the Chesapeake

Section 02 · Ceramics

Ceramics and Kiln Work in Maryland

Wheels, wedging tables and kiln logs: how a Chesapeake studio turns river clay into fired work, documented season by season.

A trimmer leaning over a spinning wheel in a low studio, wet clay ribs in hand, shelves of bone-dry bowls waiting behind a small window
(120 à 150 mots : ce que cette pratique couvre sur ce rivage, et ce que le lecteur y trouvera).

In this section

  1. A clay-dusted notebook open beside a cooling kiln, pencil columns of temperatures and times, cones arranged on a shelf above

    Keeping a kiln log that teaches

    A page-by-page look at the most ordinary object in a ceramics studio: the notebook that remembers every firing a kiln has ever run.

The reference every workroom keeps within arm's reach is our What the tide leaves. Two neighboring workrooms extend this one: Plein Air and Printmaking.