Clay FAQs

Answering all your Who, What, Where, When, How, and Why questions about clay!

Fountain Glazer
Advanced Ceramics

How to make a fountain glazer

Fountain Glazers: What are Fountain Glazers? How do Fountain Glazers work? How can you make your own Fountain Glazer? Find out here!

DIY Raku Kiln
Advanced Ceramics

How to make a DIY Raku Kiln

DIY Raku Kiln: How to make a DIY Raku Kiln. Follow this simple 8 step process to make your own DIY Raku Kiln.

Clay FAQs

Pottery Wheels – A Buyers Guide

Pottery Wheels: A Buyers Guide. What are Pottery Wheels? What’s the Best Pottery Wheel? Looking to buy a Pottery Wheel? Then this Pottery Wheel Buyers Guide is for you!

Advanced Ceramics

How to Carve Clay

Ingleton Pottery shows us how to Carve Clay. He Carves & pierces a flower design into a clay pottery bowl which he had thrown on the wheel. You can use basically anything to carve clay, he is using a sharpened tool made from a hack saw blade. Simply cut the

Advanced Ceramics

How to Print on Clay (Positive & Negative)

The following 10 videos from Kathy Skaggs show you how to print on clay by using positive and negative cutout prints. This is a fantastic technique which allows you to create amazingly decorated ceramic tiles.

Advanced Ceramics

How to make a Pinch Pot (rap)

Making a Pinch Pot can be hard work… There are so many things that can go wrong. Luckily though, once you have the correct pinch pot technique down, you turn into a pinch pot making machine! To help get you on the right track, Daniel Willis has created this amazing Pinch

pottery wheels for beginners
Beginner Ceramics

Pottery Wheels for beginners

Pottery Wheels for Beginners: A buyers Guide. Are you thinking about buying a Pottery Wheel, but are unsure which Pottery Wheel you need as a beginner? Then read our guide on Pottery Wheels for Beginners!

Advanced Ceramics

How to scrape a honeycomb pattern

Haruya Abe shows us how he creates his beautiful honeycomb shaved bowls. First of all, you need a dry pot, in the video below he uses a very dry pot, but we recommend using a leather hard one instead to minimize the clay dust. Then you need to measure out the

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Wedging Boards
Advanced Ceramics

Wedging Boards – All you need to know

What is a wedging board? One essential tool that everyone should have in a potters’ studio are wedging boards. These large boards allow you to wedge

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