Lecture: Reduced Iron Is Easy, Just Ask a Cibola Potter – Andy Ward - 2024 SW Kiln Conference

How I learned to reduce iron through trial and error and what the lack of kilns in the south tells us about how the ancients fired.

The video referenced in this lecture: "3 Years of Trying to Reduction Pit Fire Pottery" https://youtu.be/DmbG8JV6JqQ

Check out Will O's channel @willorocks

CHAPTERS
0:00 Why the Cibola potters were the best at reducing iron
2:16 Why have no kilns been found in the Cibola region
5:38 How to locate ancient kilns and "firing features"
11:53 My attempts at surface reduction
15:39 Smothering with a pot
18:17 Examples of smothering with earth
26:07 My thoughts on cover sherds
28:34 10 tips for reduced iron mineral paint
33:05 Questions and answers