Kiln Nine

members' ceramics studio, SE Portland, open 6am to midnight

chamber color, live

Kiln B is firing: reading the schedule

— °F / cone 6 glaze

The porthole at left is tinted to the true incandescent color of the chamber at this temperature, from black heat through cherry to the pale gold of cone 6. Glaze loads unload 48 hours after peak.

Shelf space, next three firings

Thu, bisque, cone 04	2 half shelves open, book one
Sun, glaze, cone 6	1 full shelf open, book it
Wed, glaze, cone 6	waitlist, 3 ahead of you

Members fire two shelves a month free, then $8 a half shelf. The kiln gods accept offerings but make no promises about crystalline glazes.

The glaze wall, 214 tested combos

Touch a chip.

Every chip on the physical wall has its full recipe in the members' binder, which has outlasted three apps and one flood.

Rows of freshly thrown bowls drying on a wooden plank — This week's greenware, drying for Thursday's bisque load. Bowl photo: Tapas Kumar Halder, CC BY 4.0.

House rules, short version: wedge your own clay, label everything, greenware shelf clears monthly, respect the quiet room, and whoever is mopping outranks everyone.