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About our Raku Pottery
All our raku vessels, are individually formed, carved, brush-glazed, and fired, using a variation of
the Japanese firing technique of raku.
A glazed pot is heated to approximately
1825 degrees Fahrenheit. Its then taken from the kiln while its still red-hot, gently
placed in a bed of pine shavings, and then covered.
When the oxygen in the air is depleted by the flame, the flame looks to the glaze for more oxygen molecules to consume. A chemical reaction may take place in the glaze, causing spontaneous and random flashes of color and metallic lustre.
As the pot cools, a random crackling (or "crazing") of the glaze occurs as the clay
and the glaze expand and contract at different rates. The carbon from the burning shavings fuses to all the unglazed surfaces and cracks in the glaze, turning them black.
The piece, still hot, is then extracted from its bed of shavings and is "quenched"
with water. Doing so not only cools the pot to the touch, but sets the colors.
Some of the results can be quite spectacular and its easy to understand the allure of pottery fired in this way.
No two peices ever turn out completely the same and every one, in its own way, is one-of-a-kind.
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The Webb Pottery studio is just outside the picturesque town of Magnolia Springs, on Alabama's Gulf Coast. We make One-of-a-kind Raku and Primitive fired Art Pottery, and Stoneware Pottery made from Native Alabama Clay. 
Stoneware Pottery from Native Clay 
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