AY Honors/Raku

Raku
Regional
Skill Level ???
Approval authority British Union	Year of Introduction 2012

• Overview
• Requirements
• Answer Key
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AY Honors/Raku/Overview

The most challenging requirement of this honor is probably this:

5. Make a simple pinch pot and coil pot. Bisque fire, glaze, and then raku fire.

1. What is the meaning of "raku" and what makes it different from other forms of pottery?

2. Design a simple pattern using the colours that are available for glazing your pot.

3. What do the terms "bisque", "greenware", and "glaze firing" refer to?

4. What is the difference about raku firing and why?

5. Make a simple pinch pot and coil pot. Bisque fire, glaze, and then raku fire.

6. What is "reduction" firing, what materials are used, and what effects do they produce?

7. Draw and label a home-made raku kiln, showing the firing chamber.

Edit Answer Key

1

What is the meaning of "raku" and what makes it different from other forms of pottery?

2

Design a simple pattern using the colours that are available for glazing your pot.

3

What do the terms "bisque", "greenware", and "glaze firing" refer to?

4

What is the difference about raku firing and why?

5

Make a simple pinch pot and coil pot. Bisque fire, glaze, and then raku fire.

6

What is "reduction" firing, what materials are used, and what effects do they produce?

7

Draw and label a home-made raku kiln, showing the firing chamber.

References

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