bonfiring

English

Etymology

From bonfire +‎ -ing.

Noun

bonfiring (plural bonfirings)

1. gerund of bonfire
   1. (ceramics) The act of firing pottery using a bonfire.
      • 2000, Moira Vincentelli, “Gender, Technology and Technique”, in Women and Ceramics: Gendered Vessels, Manchester, New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 42:

        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.

      • 2004, Moira Vincentelli, Women Potters: Transforming Traditions, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 212:

        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 […]

      • 2018, Kerstin Pinther, Alexandra Weigand, Flow of Forms/Forms of Flow: Design Histories between Africa and Europe, →ISBN, page 102:

        […] 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.

Verb

bonfiring

1. present participle and gerund of bonfire