Naked Raku

A smooth clay surface is prepared burnishing in the leather-hard stage. The piece is bisque fired anywhere. A clay slip alone are applied to the clay surface forming an eggshell coat. The piece is fired. A controlled post-firing reduction allows carbon to enter the cracks in the clay slip or the crackle of the glaze and imprint a smoke pattern onto the pot’s surface. This eggshell is peeled off, leaving an unglazed decorated surfasse.