kiln

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

Conch and Huawei have developed AI tools for more precisely predicting clinker strength, as well as for controlling energy use at the kiln where it is made.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

She fires the white, more vibrant pieces at home in her electric kiln, while the darker ones go through a reduction firing in a gas kiln at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

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

Like most of the potters’ villages, Ch’ulp’o had a communal kiln.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park

But at the brick kilns, it is business as usual, says Paswan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The final pieces have been fired in the kilns of Denby Pottery, bringing two centuries of production to a close.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Producers roast the rounded hearts of agave plants in fire pits or kilns, then crush and ferment the cooked material before distilling it in smaller batches.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026

But first, development is needed to ensure hybrid kilns can produce tiles of the quality that Morbi is known for.

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

First she described the claybeds, making sure she got in everything she could remember, the wide ocher-colored washing pits, the dragline, the kilns like great brick beehives.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Then, last spring, she attracted attention by building a second house for herself, of rosy, freshly kilned brick, abutting the compound of Roshan, the village’s most powerful man.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2016

His "giant" body, "kilned by tropical suns and arctic winds" to a permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman."

From Time Magazine Archive

The handmade brick of the house kilned out of the dirt it stood on.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

It gave him a strange, off-kilter appearance, like a Parian bust that had slumped during kilning due to some internal imbalance.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros