How to Throw a Slab and a Foot Ring for a Handbuilt Platter
Slab rollers or good old rolling pins are what most potters use to make slabs, but Paul Linhares likes to …
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Most potters don’t give much thought to kiln wash and just use the recipe they used when they first learned …
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I looooove a good old buttery matte glaze surface! Donna Polseno creates beautiful buttery matte surfaces with a lot of …
How to Make a Tagine Pot
A few years ago a friend of mine had us over for dinner and served one of the most delicious …
Marcia Selsor’s Tips on Obvara Firing
The obvara firing process, which originated in Eastern Europe around the 12th Century, involves scalding the finish on the pottery …
Successful Tips and Techniques for Raku Firing
We get a lot of questions from readers about the raku firing process. I think raku firing intrigues many a …
Quick Tip: The Ice Cube Underglaze Tray
While flipping through some back issues of Ceramics Monthly, I stumbled upon this great little gem that I knew I had …
How to Prevent Bloating in Your Clay Body
Typically, when we hear the word “bloated,” we don’t immediately think of clay. More often, we think of the feeling …
How to Design Low-Relief Carvings in Wet Clay
This post is all about carving into clay and the best tools and techniques for doing so. In this post, potter …
A Bisque Firing Schedule to Help Prevent Glaze Faults
When you pull a piece out of the kiln and there is a glaze defect on it, you might think there …
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