6 Great Tips for Carving Pottery
Carving pottery can add not only a pleasing design on a pot, but it can also be tactilely pleasing. Users … Read More
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Decorating with Nerikomi Colored Clay Patterns
If you’re bored with glazing, working with colored clay is a fun way to get color and pattern onto your … Read More
Wheel Throwing Stoppers for Bottles and Decanters
Throwing clay decanters and bottles can be a good way to challenge yourself when you become proficient at pottery wheel … Read More
Quick Tips: Endless Throwing Sponges for Super Cheap!
A potter can never have too many sponges, and when I saw Jared Zehmer’s genius hack for creating multiple throwing … Read More
In the Potter’s Kitchen: Food & Fire
Food and clay have run together for eons, developing a relationship between families, forms, and flavors. Family gatherings often bring … Read More
Painting Dimensional Tile
Alchemy is the power or process of transforming something common into something special. This magic of alchemy that occurs within … Read More
Packaging Ceramics for Shipping: Make Sure Your Pots Survive Shipping
Hopefully you haven’t already learned this the hard way, but you can’t afford to do a shoddy job on packaging … Read More
How to Make a Surprisingly Durable Hump Mold out of Unfired Clay
Plaster and ceramics go hand in hand and it is what many potters use for a hump mold. Some potters … Read More
A Dramatic Impact with Handled Bowls
Deliberate work over a few years allowed Steven Showalter to synthesize his influences and aesthetic preferences into a distinctive personal … Read More
How to Make a Square Lidded Jar Using Both Wheel-Thrown and Handbuilt Components
I have been playing around with throwing bottomless forms and altering them out of round lately. I have been making … Read More
