07/31/2026
While raku’s origin is in Japan craft, American raku is a fast-firing ceramic art style created in the 1960s by artist Paul Soldner. It modifies traditional Japanese raku by removing red-hot pottery from a kiln and placing it directly into a container filled with burning materials like newspaper to create bright metallic glazes and dark smoke patterns. We have raku coasters, bowls, sculptures and these unique shawl closers!