The Magic of Majolica: How to Create Vibrant Painterly Decoration on Pottery
Majolica, also referred to as maiolica, is a fabulous decorative technique for potters who wish to treat their surfaces like … Read More
Tag: low fire
Low-temperature firing range, usually below cone 02 (2048° F), used for most bisque-firing and for glaze-firing terracotta and whiteware. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
2019 Emerging Artist: Paige Wright
Paige Wright renders memories, immortalizing significant people in her life in clay as an act of safekeeping. Like a memory … Read More
Wood Firing Terra Sigillata
Terra sigillata is a material that is primarily used at low temperatures. But when Alan Willoughby was switching from low … Read More
Ten Basics of Firing Clay in Electric Kilns
Firing clay is the most critical part of the ceramics process because it is the one thing that makes clay … Read More
Terra Sigillata 101: How to Make, Apply, and Troubleshoot Terra Sig
Terra sigillata is an ultrarefined clay slip that can give a soft sheen when applied to bone-dry wares and, if … Read More
Tips for Stocking A Ceramic Glaze Pantry
Commercial glazes are awesome and super reliable, but I also like to include glazes that I mix on my own … Read More
An Introduction to Fuel-Burning Kilns
Fuels are organic and carbon based, they burn readily. Until recently, all kilns were fuel burning; even now when we … Read More
A Guide to the Ceramic Kiln and Various Firing Methods
One of the things all ceramic artists have in common is that we all need to fire our work in … Read More
Terra Sigillata in Wood Fire
By following his curiosity, Alan Willoughby found that a traditionally low-fired surface treatment reacts dramatically with flame, wood ash, and … Read More
Clay Culture: Chinese Fast Firing
What was once thought to be a traditional Japanese technique, the origins of Western raku now appear to have been … Read More
