Meaning of bonfiring | Babel Free

Definitions

1. gerund of bonfire
   form-of, gerund
2. The act of firing pottery using a bonfire.

Examples

“Most women's traditions involve⟳ open⟳ firing such as bonfiring, pitfiring, or a fire surrounded by a low wall. More unusually, in Cyprus, Colombia and the Canaries individual potters have⟳ their own⟳ kilns.”

“Bonfiring has a very direct⟳ contact⟳ between the pottery and the flame. Firing time is usually quite short and the pots are carefully supervised through the process⟳. Bonfiring, in general, does not create⟳ the same amount of wasters as kiln firing […]”

“[…]while open⟳ bonfiring was practiced mainly by women and universally used in African traditions where it has a very low failure rate. It has been characterized as technically simple though in fact it requires a hyper refined combination of specific clay body, fuel, firing technique and atmospheric conditions - formulas derived from local experimentation mainly by generations of women.”

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