BERNARD LEACH: St. Ives Pottery, Cornwall England.
Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1920, Bernard Leach, together with Shoji Hamada, sailed to England from Japan to establish St. Ives...
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Johannes Scott
Jun 8, 20204 min read
FIRESTARTER: the art of pyrometry
Like in Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter, where his character mysteriously manipulates fire to the amazement of huge crowds, the...
Johannes Scott
Jun 1, 20204 min read
DECORATION
There are three primary stages for application of conventional decoration: on green ware, on biscuit ware, and on glaze ware. Application...
Johannes Scott
May 25, 20202 min read
GLAZE: introduction
The ancient technology of glazing pottery was discovered in Mesopotamia and Egypt in about the 8th or 9th century B.C. A glass-like,...
Johannes Scott
May 15, 20203 min read
HANDBUILDING: methods
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...
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Apr 26, 20204 min read
CLAY: bodies
Standardised, ready-made clay bodies do not need additional preparations. The pugmill process of manufacturing had removed air pockets...
Johannes Scott
Apr 19, 20203 min read
CLAY: origins
For a more in-depth understanding of clay, one needs to distinguish between the natural conception of clay and the standardised clay...
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