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Arte Picena's last exhibition
Feb 2nd, 2016 at 1:36pm
 
Hallo slingers,
here're a few pics of the last exhibition we were involved in; we had to show some ancient skills to high school students, we were hosted by a local Archaeological Museum and had a chance to use its garden.
So we decided to show ironsmithing and pottery making, but enough words, here are the pictures  Smiley

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a couple of short swords I made from iron billets

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when I was working on the ship last year, my mate Fabio (Arte Picena's co-founder) and another friend of us were able to set up a first exhibition on this garden. The garden was unused since 2004 and they had to clean it up a bit, but they built an Iron Age hut and a tomb for didactical purposes.

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decorations made of bronze, amber and glass beads  Smiley

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Cooking the pottery lasted all day long, we'll go check the results tomorrow. We cooked some clay moulds for bronze items (the pink ones) and some common Iron Age ware.

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Our standard forge... the black bellow is mine and it's used for ironsmithing, while the brown couple belong to Fabio, he uses them for melting bronze. I managed to reach over 1500° Celsius with my single bellows, melting iron!

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Fabio describes what me and Gianluca are doing to a group of students...

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Interacting with the students!

And here's a sample video of how an Iron Age forge works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O16z3LDva0s

If you liked everything above, don't forget to like us on the Facebook - just look for "Arte Picena"  Wink
Any comment and question welcome!! Thanks for watching guys!
Mauro.
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Re: Arte Picena's last exhibition
Reply #1 - Feb 2nd, 2016 at 1:43pm
 
that's weird, it looks like some of the pictures won't show... I'm trying to fix it, but you can click on the links meanwhile  Smiley
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Reply #2 - Feb 3rd, 2016 at 11:15am
 
...pics fixed Cheesy
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Reply #3 - Feb 4th, 2016 at 6:42pm
 
I have seen at least one of those swords before. Grin

How did your pottery come out?
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Reply #4 - Feb 5th, 2016 at 4:24am
 
The small, votive pots came out nice, as well as the spindle whirls. Also the lost wax moulds are good, with more or less 80% of chamotte in them.
The bigger pot was a disaster: first it lost its rounded decorations, and then it split in two halves  Sad
The guy finally understood that he has to mix clay with chamotte  Grin
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Reply #5 - Feb 6th, 2016 at 9:39am
 
Save your broken pieces of pottery.  The next time you fire, pre heat and put the broken pieces in the coals and set the pots to be fired on them.  Once you have enough broken but fired pieces, line the bottom of your pit before you build your fire.  Keep them dry in between firing sessions.

That will prevent the pottery you are firing from wicking or absorbing moisture from the ground and you should get a much higher survival rate for your pottery.

And I cheat before I surface fire, I put my leather hard pots in the oven over night at a temperature below boiling to make sure they are really dry.  And I preheat my pots by setting them around the fire as the larger pieces of wood burn down to coals.  Start about a meter out and work them closer as the fire dies down to coals.  Set the pot on something, not the bare ground or it will absorb moisture  from the ground and explode.  And turn them frequently to heat them evenly.

I blew up a lot of pots finding this out the hard way.   Grin

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