Season 2 Episode 3:
1. Raku is from Japan. 2. They are weighting the ball of clay in order to make sure all the pieces are the same and weight about the same amount. The ball of clay have to be even and consistent to each other. 3. The bottle need to fill a total of six cups. If they have two bottles then they need to make 12 cups. 4. Sketch at the bottom of page. 5. The saggar is the piece on the outside covering. 6.The "off the hump" is different from the traditional throwing because with the "off the hump," you throw from one lump to the next without weighting the lump of clays like it is done with the traditional throwing and trying to make it all look about the same. 7. A lot of pieces that were thrown, the bottom had a hole in them. 8. The winner had a total of 13 bowls. 9. When turning a pot or trimming, if you over trim a piece, you can cut through the piece as holes or under trim a piece they look and feel dirty, rough, and heavy. 10. By tapping the bottom of the piece, they can tell how thick the piece is and if they suppose keep on turning the pot or trimming the piece. 11. The first firing that last 24 hours is called a Bisque fire. 12. 14th Century carving work is called, "the Devil's Work." 13. It is better to have several small pieces in a lantern piece. 14. You can draw your design in pencil first before glazing the piece. 15. Raku means happiness or enjoyment. 16. In Raku, black has no glaze and to have that black color, you have to paint the piece with wax. 17. Copper Oxides create a metallic finish to the piece such as metallic red and blue to the piece. 18.Copper wire wrapped creates black color lines around the piece. 19. Raku temperature speeds go fast. 20. The bins had sawdust in the bottom of them. 21. Items that they used to burn: hair, cooper, banana peels, seaweed, beards, pony/horse's hair, salt, lavender, flowers, cloth, flowers, and sister's hair. 22. When they put the pieces in reduction, they make the color of the piece intensifies or become stronger. 23. After the pieces have been decorated, they are dipped in a bucket of water in order to cool it down and get rid of all dirt/ things that were used to burn the piece. 24. On bottom of the page.
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