How can I make an electric-fired ceramic piece look wood-fired?

I have a piece made of a very light stoneware clay and only have access to an electric kiln. Is there any way I can replicate those reds and browns without wood-firing?

If you means colors which are due to reduction firing the only thing you can do is look through colors suitable for oxidation firing and see how you like them and use those. As far as I am aware it’s not possible to do reduction firing using an electric kiln.

Ceramics Monthly, September 1985, Vol. 33 No. 7, Magazine (Potters, Sombies and Others, Art for Eating, Studio Management, The B.O.R. Kiln, Wood Firing in America, Washington Craft Show, Unloading, Earthernware Revisited, Breaking Old Patterns, David Taylor, Crystal Glazes., Vol. 33 No. 7) …

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Ceramics Monthly, September 1985, Vol. 33 No. 7, Magazine (Potters, Zombies and Others, Art for Eating, Studio Management, The B.O.R. Kiln, Wood Firing in America, Washington Craft Show, Unloading, Earthernware Revisited, Breaking Old Patterns, David Taylor, Crystal Glazes., Vol. 33 No. 7) …

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