The Big Saggar Reveal

 Our meeting on Sunday 3 August was the Big Saggar Reveal.

After being taken off site to be fired in a gas kiln, all our saggars were brought back to the hall and unpacked.

Packing our saggars at the July meeting

Our saggar bundles in the gas kiln

Some bundles were tricky to undo but there was only the one casualty where the clay saggar was too tight around the neck of a bottle.

The 'before' combustibles in a shallow dish

After the kiln firing to 600 deg C all organics have burnt out leaving just the wire wrapped around the bundle

'Before' showing materials used

The wire and the red terra siggalata gave the interesting colours here.

combustibles here include seaweed and ferns  - see below for results.  The terrasig pulled off in places leaving some white patches.

    

Random images from the big reveal day, with the results of some of the Raku at Ray's too.

Some were in foil and clay - some in only clay or only foil

a bit of a polish brings out all the colour 

Our new member was very pleased with the results of her first saggar firing

this little cat figure came out with some nice greens and black stripes.

Some lovely results in the raku firings too.