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  2. Biscuit (pottery) - Wikipedia

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    The porous nature of (fired) biscuit earthenware means that it readily absorbs water, while vitreous wares such as porcelain, bone china and most stoneware are non-porous even without glazing. [6] The temperature of biscuit firing is today usually at least 1000°C, although higher temperatures are common. [7]

  3. Pit fired pottery - Wikipedia

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    Pottery firing mound in Kalabougou, Mali, a very large form of firing pit. Removing the fired pots, Kalabougou, 2010. Pit firing is the oldest known method for the firing of pottery. Examples have been dated as early as 29,000–25,000 BCE, [1] [2] while the earliest known kiln dates to around 6000 BCE, and was found at the Yarim Tepe site in ...

  4. Potters For Peace - Wikipedia

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    Potters Without Borders registered as a non-profit society in British Columbia, Canada in 2006 was formerly affiliated with Potters For Peace. PWB works in technical assistance to organizations and governments that wish to develop production of low cost ceramic water filters (CWF) for use in at-risk communities world wide.

  5. Black-on-black ware - Wikipedia

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    Black-on-black ware pot by María Martinez of San Ildefonso Pueblo, circa 1945.Collection deYoung Museum María and Julián Martinez pit firing black-on-black ware pottery at P'ohwhóge Owingeh (San Ildefonso Pueblo), New Mexico (c.1920) Incised black-on-black Awanyu pot by Florence Browning of Santa Clara Pueblo, collection Bandelier National Monument Wedding Vase, c. 1970, Margaret Tafoya of ...

  6. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    By about 5000 BC pottery-making was becoming widespread across the region, and spreading out from it to neighbouring areas. Pottery making began in the 7th millennium BC. The earliest forms, which were found at the Hassuna site, were hand formed from slabs, undecorated, unglazed low-fired pots made from reddish-brown clays. [71]

  7. Horse hair raku - Wikipedia

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    Horse hair vase. Horse hair raku is a method of decorating pottery through the application of horsehair and other dry carbonaceous material to the heated ware. The burning carbonaceous material creates smoke patterns and carbon trails on the surface of the heated ware that remain as decoration after the ware cools.

  8. Burnishing (pottery) - Wikipedia

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    Burnishing gives pottery a reflective surface without having to use a ceramic glaze. [5] It is described as a low-tech way of finishing pottery because burnished pottery needs to be fired below 1832F (1000C), which is different from firing glaze. [5] Burnishing can also be a step towards preparing pottery for pit firing, saggar firing, or raku. [5]

  9. Fire pot - Wikipedia

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    Semi-nomadic and sedentary people would have made or acquired more advanced types of fire pots, as opposed to the fully nomadic people who would have used more primitive types. Being more sedentary, people were able to more effectively work with clay, and would have kilns to bake the pottery in, instead of using the traditional fire-baking methods.

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