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Ceramics

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.

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

(introduction, 2 paragraphes : le cahier sur la table et ce que la page documente).

What a kiln log records

Reading a firing after the fact

(titre du tableau : entrées de journal contre résultats de cuisson).

The wedge table upstream

When a log changes a schedule

Frequent mistakes to avoid

  • (erreur 1, concrète et observée).
  • (erreur 2).
  • (erreur 3).
  • (erreur 4).

(conclusion, 1 à 2 paragraphes).