How to Make a Better Homemade Sink Trap for Your Pottery Studio
When setting up a studio, it is important to find a safe way to wash your hands and tools without … Read More
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To place wares in a kiln. Or, in a loaded kiln, the entire structure of shelves, furniture, and wares.
A Bisque Firing Schedule to Help Prevent Glaze Faults
When you pull a piece out of the kiln and there is a glaze defect on it, you might think there … Read More
An Experienced Wood Firer Shares Wood Kiln Plans for a Small Instructional Wood Kiln
John Thies has been building, firing and maintaining large wood kilns for more than thirty years. For more than ten … Read More
5 Tips for Keeping Your Studio Clean and Healthy
Like many potters, I have a basement studio. Unlike in my dream studio, which would have sweeping views of a … Read More
Tips for Successful Raku Firing: Raku Clay Bodies and Kilns
Over the past couple of decades, raku firing has become very popular. The unpredictability of the process keeps potters and … Read More
In the Studio: Transfer + Stamp + Color
For me, making mugs is like eating comfort food. When the pandemic first hit, I found myself returning again and … Read More
How to Make Simple Handmade Aprons for the Ceramics Studio
We don’t really have a “pottery fashion” section on CAN, but perhaps we should considering all of the great handmade … Read More
Call for Entries: September 2021
Deadlines for exhibitions, fairs, and festivals. … Read More
Tips and Tools: Cone Packs for Wood Kilns
Cones are key in gaining insight into a kiln firing. How you assemble cone packs and where you place them … Read More
Techno File: Copper Red Nanoparticles
Karthik Lalwani, Michael Leopold, PhD, and Ryan Coppage, PhD
Copper carbonate plus a precise firing schedule can produce a vibrant, crushed-strawberry-like red glaze in reduction firings. But did you … Read More
