NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION
Claire Porter has spent her lockdown creating a mini salt kiln! Before Covid, I was a small business owner running a successful and growing pottery business. By Easter, like so many other craftspeople, stuck indoors with no income and dwindling clay supplies, I realised necessity really is the mother of invention – so while my husband and No2 son started building me an online shop, and No1 son took over my studio hand-building a full-size toilet (à la Great Pottery Throw Down), I started planning a new kiln.
But what type of kiln? I didn’t have any bricks for a wood kiln, and I already have gas and raku kilns, so I hunted out Ian Gregory’s book on Alternative Kilns. I loved the Little…