The workshop Terre de Flandre travels to enliven your parties and offers demonstrations and animations pottery fun and educational.

The demonstration cooking Raku
Is a show of fire for old and young
The Raku is a Japanese technique of the XVIth century related to the tea ceremony.
The pieces are put in the oven and heated at 950 ° C.

As soon as they turn red they are pulled out.

They sustain a thermal shock that cracks the enamel, creating cracks on the surface of the arts pieces but they remaining invisible.

To make the cracks perceptible, art pieces undergo a smoky concept in a sawdust bath before being cooled with water

 

These spectacular firings are repeated every half hour on average, which allow 8 to 10 batches on an afternoon.

The workshop apprentices potters

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