Every once in a while I run across something in this vast world of ceramics that makes me go hun? Junk-a-gama did just that. Later this week I’m heading out of town, well just barely out of town, to participate in Prairie Flicker, a workshop organized by Saskterra. Prairie Fire also runs this week, wherein participants get the experience of building, packing and firing a wood kiln. But the Flicker workshop caught my interest as I’d never heard of a junk-a-gama before. Basically from what I’ve found is that it involves the use of old kiln bricks and parts from around the kiln yard to build a non-permanent tunnel kiln, which aims to reach cone 9/10.
Here’s a site with some pics to give you an idea of the construction, but of course check back next week as I’ll be posting some pics of the kiln we’ll be firing and details of how it all went.
