Have you ever crossed your mind about how it is to work with your own clay? There is something special in local clay and its impurity. Clays that you dig from nature can make wonderful slips and slip glazes if you experiment with firing temperature and fire them at a bit higher temperature than usual….
When making pottery, artists usually use a pottery wheel and some of them prefer making tableware in a free form, so they use hand building. No matter which technique you use, after some time of practicing, you will be able to use almost the same amount of clay each time. If you want to enjoy…
For thousands of years, ceramics and pottery have been part of human culture, and shaping the clay requires some special skills. Artists that make and bake the clay must have a common name.So what do You call someone who does Pottery?
You probably noticed pottery that stands out the most from the other ceramics. Eye-catching blue color is the most recognizable detail and widely recognized. This type of pottery is called Blue pottery. But it is not just the color that makes this ceramics special. In this article, we will dive into the origin of this…
Have you ever walked into a nice shop or cool studio, picked a nice vase thinking what flowers will match the decorations? But all of a sudden you are surprised with the price. If it is just a piece of ceramics, why does it have to be so expensive?
From time to time you can run into a valuable object in your grandma’s old house, your attic, basement, or maybe shed. That valuable object can be a piece of ceramics like an expensive vessel or pretty nice plate but if you don’t know where to look, it could end in the trash. With this…