Pottery Making Techniques Make Your Pottery Shine Without Glaze: The Basics of Burnished Clay Historically, burnishing clay was a method used by early potters to make their pottery more watertight and sanitary. Nowadays, most … Read More
Pottery Making Techniques Parmesan Hash Brown Cakes It’s Thanksgiving in the United States, and we are continuing our Thanksgiving Day tradition of posting a recipe (for food, … Read More
Pottery Making Techniques Terra Sigillata 101: How to Make, Apply, and Troubleshoot Terra Sig Terra sigillata is an ultrarefined clay slip that can give a soft sheen when applied to bone-dry wares and, if … Read More
Pottery Making Techniques Burnishing Pottery: A Step by Step Guide Burnishing pottery is a technique in which clay is polished to a beautiful sheen without the use of glaze (like … Read More
Firing Techniques Aluminum Foil Saggars: An Easy Alternative to Traditional Clay Saggars Saggar firing was originally developed to protect wares from ash-slagging and flame-flashing in wood firings, but in contemporary use, with … Read More
Firing Techniques Pit Firing Using a Good Old-Fashioned Charcoal Grill As Sumi von Dassow explains in this post, you can get great pit firing effects on pots using a good … Read More
Pottery Making Techniques Kangaroo Bowls From time to time a student brings me a catalog page showing a bowl with an attached pocket for crackers. … Read More
Pottery Making Techniques How to Throw a Bundt Cake Pan on the Pottery Wheel I have to admit, I never knew why bundt cake pans have the tube in the middle of the pan … Read More
Ceramic Art and Artists How to Make a Ceramic Olla Watering System Since it is summertime, I thought I would share this great summer project from the Pottery Making Illustrated archives! In this project, … Read More
Pottery Making Techniques How to Make a French Butter Dish In this post, an excerpt from In the Potter’s Kitchen, Sumi von Dassow shows how to throw a French butter … Read More