JT101 Posted January 24, 2017 Report Share Posted January 24, 2017 Hello everyone I am a hobbyist potter and have been reading about medieval pottery. Well I haven't even started making pottery yet, but I'm getting there. Being interested in self sufficiency I have been focusing on harvesting and processing my own clay, and now looking towards building a stove for which I am trying to gleen some knowledge from medieval technology. A wood fired all in one stove that could fire bricks, earthenware and stoneware would obviously be ideal, but maybe it's a little far fetched. From reading a bit about pottery history I can see the Germans started making stoneware during Tudor times and selling it to us, so clearly they had kilns capable of say 1300C. Has anyone come across these sorts of kilns? They were based around Cologne, but a John Dwight from Fulham eventually copied the technology. Their kilns may be a little large for my purposes. I want to stick a real small version only say 3-4ft in width and height in my garden. They clearly didn't have factory fired refractory bricks or steel risers, so how did they do it and how can I apply it to my backyard stove? Many thanks from London Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnolia Mud Research Posted January 24, 2017 Report Share Posted January 24, 2017 Start by reading Steve Mills booklet on backyard kilns https://archive.org/details/Steve_Mills_Backyard_Kilns LT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted January 25, 2017 Report Share Posted January 25, 2017 Steve Mills designed and built my friend's soda kiln. works great. He was a real treasure. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Longer Member Posted January 25, 2017 Report Share Posted January 25, 2017 Try craigslist. I've seen several kilns there for sale that appear to be that old and are being offered at historical artifact prices.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted January 25, 2017 Report Share Posted January 25, 2017 I had an old Paul Soldner kiln building book ..more like Steve's as in very concise. Interesting. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mug Posted January 25, 2017 Report Share Posted January 25, 2017 Considering the materials that were used; How many times do you think this could be fired? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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