Throwing Clay: Some results #17 - Hair Pots

Hair Pots?!

Using white stoneware, rather than the more typical brown, and then bisque firing as usual is the start of this Native American pottery.

Once the piece is bisque fired, you fire the piece again, unglazed! When the piece is to temperature, nearly 1000°, you take the hot piece from the kiln and using horse hair, you can use other hairs, but horse gives you the nicest lines, you drape the hairs across the hot pottery. The hairs are what make the black lines. The speckles are from sprinkles of saw dust. The materials essetially burn on to the surface.

Once cooled, you use floor polish to shine up the piece!

The pot on the left is 3.5" tall and about 5" in diameter.
The clock is 9.25" in diameter