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Decorating technique where design is formed by cutting or carving shallow lines in clay surface. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook

It’s important to me that my work is both functional and highly decorative. I combine handbuilt and wheel-thrown elements in … Read More

Carving pottery can add not only a pleasing design on a pot, but it can also be tactilely pleasing. Users … Read More

Burnishing pottery is a technique in which clay is polished to a beautiful sheen without the use of glaze. Ancient … Read More

An exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art displayed contemporary and historical Japanese ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection. … Read More

Her friends say Zablocki looks like her characters. She laughs, “You know, the woman with the long nose?” Her imaginary … Read More

With a multi-ethnic population consisting of over 40 ethnic groups, including Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and Dutch, it is one of … Read More

There are many, many ways to put lines onto pots – carving, fluting, painting, drawing – but, I have to … Read More

Handbuilding with porcelain has a well known problem: it often warps. And when you are doing a lot of beautiful … Read More

One of the things that really excited me when I started to work with porcelain was how lightweight my pieces … Read More

Before finding pottery I studied textiles and embroidery in college. The love of ornamentation, decoration, and attention to detail that … Read More