The Mechanics of Making Strainer Holes for a Tea Strainer
If you’re a potter and you love making loose leaf tea, making a ceramic tea infuser is a project you … Read More
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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
How to Throw a Large Porcelain Bowl Without Collapsing it
No matter what Lorna Meaden says, I’d call the bowl she is throwing in this clip a large porcelain bowl, … Read More
7 Fun Ways to Decorate with Slips and Engobes
Slips, engobes, and underglazes are a lot of fun to use for ceramic decoration and there are endless ways to … 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
Applying Pattern to Tiles Using Plaster Transfer
You may be familiar with newsprint transfer to get screen printed images onto clay surfaces. But in today’s post, we are … Read More
How to Hang a Plate Without a Built-in Hanging Mechanism
Handmade plates make great wall art. But there have been more times than I care to admit that I forgot … Read More
How to Slab Build a Simple Darted Cup with Soft Slabs
After many years of just throwing, I have been doing more and more handbuilding. Part of the reason for this … Read More
Recipes: All About Tile
Forrest Lesch-Middelton shares a few clay and glaze recipes that have proven suitable for creating handmade tile. … Read More
Tips and Tools:All About Tile
Consider clay body characteristics carefully when making tile by hand. Your choice of clay and the handling techniques you use … Read More
