Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1920, Bernard Leach, together with Shoji Hamada, sailed to England from Japan to establish St. Ives...

Like in Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter, where his character mysteriously manipulates fire to the amazement of huge crowds, the...

There are three primary stages for application of conventional decoration: on green ware, on biscuit ware, and on glaze ware. Application...

The ancient technology of glazing pottery was discovered in Mesopotamia and Egypt in about the 8th or 9th century B.C. A glass-like,...

Pinching: Hollow out a cavity in a small ball of clay using the right (if right-handed) thumb, while slowly rotating the ball in the cup...

Standardised, ready-made clay bodies do not need additional preparations. The pugmill process of manufacturing had removed air pockets...

For a more in-depth understanding of clay, one needs to distinguish between the natural conception of clay and the standardised clay...