From the Laundry Room to the Clay Studio: Readers Share Clever Tips for Pottery Tools
Today we bring you a couple of great reader-submitted tips for ceramic tools. These tips involve items that you probably … Read More
Tag: leather hard
Condition of clay in which it has stiffened but is still damp. Point at which pieces are joined and most surface modification and trimming are done. Soft leather-hard ideal for forming, joining, thick slip-decorating. Medium leather-hard good for thin slip- decorating, joining, incising, carving, piercing. Hard leather-hard good for thin slip- decorating, carving, scraping. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
How to Make Custom Clay Texture Rollers
From clay texture rollers to pottery stamps to sprig molds, there are lots of options when it comes to adding … Read More
Porcelain for Beginners—8 Tips for Getting Off to a Good Start with Porcelain
Switching to a porcelain clay body may seem like an easy enough thing to do, but if you’ve ever worked … Read More
How to Throw an Optimally Designed Whiskey Cup
Whiskey bottles are a popular form in a lot of potters’ vocabularies–understandably because whiskey is delicious! But you also need … Read More
Persnickety Porcelain Clay: How to Minimize Your Loss Rate
Porcelain clay is a clay body that draws in many a potter because of its bright white color, translucency, and … Read More
How to Use a Clay Ribbon Tool and a Slip Trailer for a New Twist on Inlay Ceramics
Sumiko Takada with Kaname Takada
We’ve done a lot of articles on inlay ceramics—often called slip inlay or Mishima—here on Ceramic Arts Network. Here’s a … Read More
Making Molds on Location
I moved to Louisiana in 2002 to attend graduate school at Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge. Louisiana is … Read More
In the Studio: Ceramic Jewelry Beads
Ceramics is being included by some contemporary jewelers as part of a large and varied palette of different non-precious materials. … Read More
How to Make a Coil Pot: Using Flat Coils to Construct Large Jars
Until several years ago, I hadn’t had much interest in making coil pots. I preferred the speed of the potters … Read More
How to Make Textured Ceramic Wall Sculptures
Sometimes you just feel like making pieces for the wall, not the table, and Gary Jackson’s project in the Pottery … Read More
