Technologies Explained | Production of Faience
Production of Faience
Published: 10th January 2012
The network is experimenting with the production of faience, also known as Egyptian Paste.
Bill Crumbleholme' Beaker Folk website has a page about his early work.
Virginia Evans uses faience beads in her replica jewellery.
The network members ran a workshop on 7th January 2012 at the Dorset County Museum, in conjunction with the British Museum touring exhibition about the Pharoahs.
This page shows some of the work being produced during that project - nicknamed Phaience!
Mark tending the faience furnace. This shows the bellows pipes entering the charcoal pit, in which the crucibles are buried.
Lifting the crucible from the furnace, the faience pieces can be seen glowing red.
Samples of faience. From left to right :- under-fired spiral; scarabs and rings awaiting firing; beads (with colbalt blue) and rings just out of the furnace - still glowing.
Faience cooling down. These are items made by people who came to the workshop on 7th Jan, some have mildly exploded because they were heated too quickly, but many have worked very nicely. These were fired in a Raku pottery kiln, made of ceramic fibre heated by bottled gas. They are fired sitting on scallop shells, which stop them sticking the the kiln shelf, the shells turn fragile and can be filed off easily.
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This collection of faience items were made as test pieces, using various colouring oxides and moulding methods.
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