kiln

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At a cavernous facility in Morbi, in India's western Gujarat state, a 200-metre-long propane-powered kiln that normally fires clay nonstop is silent.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

With funds from a wartime grant, a small room off the main space was outfitted with pottery wheels, work tables and a kiln, and stocked with blocks of clay, paint and other art supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

The handprint found underneath was probably made when someone, perhaps the potter, moved the house out of the workshop to dry before firing in a kiln, according to the researchers.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025

I became addicted to the feel of clay, the triumph-failure cycle of the wheel, the loop-de-loop of joy and horror when pieces finally emerged from the kiln.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

“We didn’t kill them on purpose. Smithy was trying to smoke some meat in his new kiln, and it suffocated the worms in the trees.”

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri