The Problem With Trench Kilns

Trench kilns as they are fired today are very successful at making organic painted black on white pottery but fail to make reduced iron painted pottery. The ancient potters were able to do both, presumably even in the same firing. That indicates that we are doing something wrong today and we need to reexamine the process for firing a trench kiln to better replicate the results that the ancient potters had.

This is an except from my latest YouTube video which goes a lot deeper on this subject - https://youtu.be/G4Bd93bL4Tg?si=PHb6IhtGOrEXgt1A

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