Mingya kiln l wood fired blue-painted Shino knife-cut mug

Using blue glaze as ink and adobe as paper, Shino glaze becomes more layered. The knife-shaved utensils are relatively thick, and you can actually feel its lines and weight in your hands. Pour a cup of coffee or hot tea, and hold them in your hands to feel the warmth and healing of the soil. Let your favorite utensils accompany you, every day is good. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51099297503_614c4a073e_b.jpg **Shino Glaze**is the glaze color that our studio is good at. Shino-yaki was developed by Japanese potters in order to make similar Chinese white porcelain and blue and white, but under the creativity of Mino potters, they developed unique Japanese pottery. Shino glaze uses extensive use of feldspar glaze to create a light snow-like glaze color that is thick and warm like jade. The edges of the glaze show beautiful fiery red changes and orange peel-like brown eyes. The color of the glaze is varied and cannot be deliberately controlled by humans, but it also reflects the traces of the author's hand-made everywhere. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50056938642_a49dc61e15_b.jpg **Wood burning introduction** "Firewood" is a traditional kiln burning method that uses wood to burn to a high temperature of over 1200 degrees. There are natural "fire marks" left by firewood directly on the green body, as well as the ashes that naturally fall after the wood is burned, which makes the color of the work warm and rich in changes, which is a realm that electric kilns and gas kilns cannot reach. Compared with ordinary electric kilns and gas kilns, it takes about 8 to 10 days for firewood to burn from row (stack) kilns, ignition and burning to closing the kiln, and then cooling down. Coupled with the high pressure of the wood burning kiln, as well as the humidity of the climate, the dryness of the wood, the artificial speed of throwing wood, the location of the kiln... and other factors, it may lead to the success or failure of the work, and the damage rate is also high. Experienced wood-burning writers will consider the speed of the entire kiln airflow when discharging the kiln. From the different sizes of the works, how to emit, how to estimate how the fire path rises, how to throw wood and carbon, and the degree of burning fire must be planned. mind. Every process must be dedicated and focused, and then the perfect wood-fired works will be presented. Place of manufacture: Hualien, Taiwan https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47977922023_983944d690_b.jpg **Precautions** 1. The works are all handmade, the texture and color are different, and the computer display is different. 2. The surface of the work has bumps, slight bubbles, glaze shades, and cracks. The texture is normal for hand-made, not flaws. 3. Each piece is stamped with the Mingya Kiln seal, or hand-carved and signed by the author (Teacher Cai Rongzong, Teacher Zhong Xuanhui). 4. Please clean with sponge, soft detergent and water before first use. Do not expose to direct fire to heat, and the temperature difference between hot and cold should not be too large. It can be used in microwave ovens, ovens and electric cookers. 5. The works are all real shots. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by email, and we will get back to you as soon as possible!!