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Daily How to Make a Chattering Tool and Make Great Marks

While chattering marks when trimming wheel thrown pottery are sometimes seen as a flaw, many potters deliberately make chattering marks on their pots. In this post, an excerpt from the May/June 2022 issue of Pottery Making Illustrated, Delores Farmer shares how she makes her own chattering tools out of metal strapping, and then uses them to make great marks on her work.

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Daily A Slick Way to Transfer Printed Designs onto Curved Surfaces

Surface design techniques are endless but often favor application on flat planes or greenware. Since many ceramic surfaces are not flat, potters have come up with clever ways to transfer screen printed designs to their work.

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Daily Creating Lively Surfaces with Wax Resist Brush Decoration

When you make animated pots, you have to be sure the glazing and decorating complement the movement in the form. Nick Joerling does this beautifully on his pots by creating simple wax resist brush decoration to contrast with different glaze layers.

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Daily A Super Slick Way to Create Templates for Slab Building

If you build pots with slabs, making templates for your forms can be a great way to have consistency throughout your work. But sometimes it can be hard to come up with a template. You can build a pot and then cut it apart to figure out the shape of the template, but that can be time consuming.

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