History & Culture
Learn about the rich history and cultural tapestries that adorn the world of ceramics!
History & Culture
Handmade: By Royal Appointment Wedgwood BBC Documentary
The Making of the Wedgewood Vase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnfQabxrEWU The film which follows the making of a Wedgwood vase. The culmination of over 250 years of expertise and heritage, the panther vase is handcrafted by artisan potters using the same techniques pioneered by Josiah Wedgwood in the 18th century. But the Wedgwood
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Ceramic flowers style Capodimonte
In this video we see Sonda Ceramics, the Italian Capodimonte Ceramic style, the company which produce ceramic flowers, show us how they produce their gold and platinum decorations. The molds look fantastic, and we simply LOVE how they hand make the flowers and leaves! Beautiful!
Advanced Ceramics
Primitive Technology: Creating a Forge Blower
Wow, just wow! This guy is amazing. If i didn’t have an electric kiln I would be building my own wood fired kiln, creating about 10 of these and inviting some friends over to help fire the kiln… amazing! He even makes some Iron at the end just to test
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Coil building in Gakoigo pottery village
I love two things about this video: 1) The clay they are using looks exceptional; a coarse and plastic body, which they handle very wet. The addition of extra water during the building process makes the process akin to throwing. 2) They are using this wet clay to build upside
Handbuilding
Traditional Handicrafts of Jingdezhen
Feel the magnificent craftsmanship of traditional Jingdezhen porcelain. From the harvesting of Kaolin clay, purification, molding, outlining, painting, glazing to the building and firing in the 1300 C kiln. A remarkable feat of Jingdezhen potters – and more exciting to watch than any action movie in the Cinema!
Advanced Ceramics
How to kintsukuroi – Kintsugi, Japanese gold repair
Kintsukuroi (Kintsugi) : What is kintsugi? How can you use kintsugi to repair your broken pottery? What do you need to do Kintsugi? Find out here 
Functionalware
Whichford Pottery: How we make our pots
An introduction to Whichford Pottery with Jim Keeling. Look around the garden at Whichford Pottery and see how they make their handmade terracotta pots. It really goes to show that you should appreciate local, home grown traditional businesses, and not just buy plastic pots from ikea. Next time you need
Advanced Ceramics
Making a Japanese Teapot
Teapots are a very traditional thing. They signify patience, sophistication and a deep amount of culture. One of the reasons is because teapots are simply so damn hard to make! So when you do finally make a good teapot, you take care of it and treat it like it is your own flesh
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Clay FAQs
Ceramic 3D Printers
3D Printing has been around for a couple of years now… but it has only been used with plastic filament. Well things are about to
Advanced Ceramics
How to Hand Build a Ceramic Flower
How to Hand Build a Ceramic Flower. These flowers will be part of a wall sculpture, but the techniques can be applied for adding flowers onto wheel thrown work as well.
Air Dry Clay Club
Christmas Angel
How to Make a Christmas Angel Out of Air-Dry Clay Get ready to create a beautiful Christmas angel using simple shapes! Follow these easy steps:
