Smoke billows out of the 55-gallon steel drum on the patio of Jed Cossonay’s Chandler home. With a pair of metal tongs, he pulls a small copper-colored pot out of the makeshift kiln and places it in ...

The centuries-old art of Raku pottery comes to South County this summer as Amy Webber teaches an eight-week course on the techniques of Raku and pit firing. These two time-honored firing methods come ...

SOMERVILLE – Raku, a 12th-century pottery-firing technique, may trace its origins to creating the wares for Japanese tea ceremonies, but you certainly don’t need to hop on a plane to try it yourself.