Raku workshop at the workshop 47
During the course, you will shape, decorate and enamel your clay sculptures, then you will experience their spectacular firing in the fire. You will leave with your cracked and/ or smoky works in Raku The Raku is a cooking technique of Korean origin that dates from the sixteenth. It was developed in Japan, especially for the tea ceremony. Each piece in Raku evokes the four elements: Earth The piece is hand-shaped or around in chamottée clay. Fire The room is first fired at 900°C. Then enamelled by rapid firing Oven outlet at 1000°C and laid in wood chips on fire L'Air The unglazed areas of the room are blackened in the smoke from the chips. Soaked in a cold water bath, the temperature difference causes subtle or spectacular cracks in the enamel.