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The contemporary wood-fired ceramics which
is to discussed in this article is not the so-called "the ceramics
fired with woods" in a broad sense. It is a new conception of firing
and making ceramics. Therefore the wood in this scope is not only
a fuel, but also a "medium" and the effects from this medium is
an important part which has been pursued and appreciated in the
art of wood firing.
Although it has some similarities to those former wood-fired kilns
and fuels, it has completely different techniques and ideas, especially
the aesthetic points of view. It is more interesting to find that
this method that was regarded as being rough and crude in the past
has been reevaluated step by step in the past fifty years and, unexpectedly,
the people have 9ained more lasting and true sustenance in the primitive
and rough styles. CHARACTERISTICS OF WOOD-FlRED CERAMICS.
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