20 Extruder Tips to Improve Your Extruder Experience
Extruders are great tools for the clay studio and they are super fun to make extruded pottery or sculpture. To … Read More
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Easy Peasy Cone 04 Glaze Recipes
In today’s post, our own Holly Goring not only includes some versatile three-ingredient cone 04 glaze recipes, but she also … Read More
Feldspars Used in Ceramic Glazes and Clay Making
Feldspars are important ingredients in clay bodies and glazes. In both applications, their primary function is to supply fluxes to … Read More
PJ Anderson: A Happy Warrior
In order to learn about traditional craft and pottery-making techniques, PJ Anderson studied Indigenous processes in South Africa and New … Read More
How to Make Casting Slip from Your Clay Body
Ready-made casting slip is commercially available in all firing ranges, making it super convenient, but if you were wondering how … Read More
How to Make Underglaze in Your Ceramics Studio
The truth is, I was a nerdy ceramics undergraduate student. I wanted to learn everything, right away—and I loved my … Read More
A Super Simple Analogy to Help You Understand Glaze Structure
Understanding glaze structure isn’t hard. Ceramic glazes consist of three main components: glass formers, fluxes, and refractories. If you can … Read More
Essential Guidelines for a Safe and Healthy Pottery Studio
Most of us ceramic artists know there are some dangers inherent in the art form we have chosen—from inhaling raw … Read More
How to Correct Five Common Ceramic Glaze Defects
It is especially true in the ceramics world that one person’s fault is another person’s fancy–especially when it comes to … Read More
Slip Trailing for Beginners: A Primer on a Great Ceramics Decorating Technique
Slip trailing is a great way to use clay slip as a decorative tool. Like its cousin glaze trailing, slip … Read More
