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WorksheetsFiring processes for Ceramics
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is the type of firing that we use in the classroom?
Electric Kiln Firing
Pit Firing
Woodfiring
Raku firing
What type of firing did we study last month?
Electric Firing
Pit firing
Wood firing
Raku Firing
Are wood fire and pit fire different processes?
Yes. Wood fire is a 3 day process with 24 hour stoking, and Pit fire is a quick 1 day process.
No.
Are pit fire and Raku fired pieces good for food?
No.
Yes.
What would you use to fire with the low fire glazes we have in the back of the room?
Electric firing and Raku firing melt the glazes in the low fire range.
Wood fire and Pit fire for the low fire glazes in the back of the room.
What type of firing is a 45 minute process to heat the ceramics and melt the glaze and then put the pieces in a combustable bin with newspaper to achieve the interesting carbon trapping (making the unglazed clay body turn black or gray.)
Electric Kiln firing
Pit Firing
Wood Firing
Raku Firing
What type of firing requires that you dig a hole, put combustible material in it, your pottery and then more combustible material light it and come back the next day to see what happened to your work?
Electric Firing
Pit Firing
Wood Firing
Raku Firing
What type of firing would you put on a shelf, and wait for 3-5 days until your work magically becomes fired for you and is put on another shelf?
Electric Kiln
Pit fire
Wood fire
Raku fire
Which kind of firing methods originate in the orient?
Woodfire and Raku
Electric and Pit
What kind of firing process was used by the Native Americans in the mid-West in the early 1900s?
Electric firing
Wood firing
Pit Firing
Raku Firing
