Pottery Making Method
Manual method:
The method of forming handmade pottery is considered one of the oldest methods of pottery making, but it is still used, especially by the Japanese, who make raku pottery tea cups by hand. Liquid clay, with the aim of making square or rectangular bowls, and it is noteworthy that hollow pottery witnessed a great development and contributed to the manufacture of many beautiful pots since ancient times, by forming long rolls of clay arranged on top of each other, and forming them in a circular way, so that their walls are smoothed, Flattened to obtain the desired final shape.
pottery wheel:
The pottery wheel is one of the ways used to make pottery in Egypt before 4000 BC, so that the clay is placed in the center of the wheel that rotates the clay during the process of forming it by hand, or by copying the main shape to be manufactured using a specific tool, then pouring it into the mold and leaving it to dry before Put it in the oven at high temperatures to harden it.
Pottery using firewood:
Pottery can be made using fire in order to dry it completely, and prevent it from melting as soon as it comes in contact with water; Thanks to the chemical transformation that occurs during the formation of pottery, it is worth noting that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the first half of the twentieth century the use of huge coal-fired glass furnaces became common, but coal was replaced by cleaner fuels, such as: natural gas, propane gas, and wood , electricity, and others.
Pottery making using wood:
The Japanese used firewood in making pottery, by placing pottery in anagama, a furnace with a tunnel-like door inside, or by placing it in a multi-chamber kiln called a noborigama, and the use of these wood-fired kilns spread all over the world.