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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 Create a Textured Slab Cup with a Darted Squared Base

In this video, KaransPotsAndGlass demonstrate how to roll and texture a slab, and create a cylinder with a squared darted bottom. She used a piece of craft foam from which she cut the feather focal accent, and then used an MKM wooden roller to create the repeated texture in 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.

How to make a Rose Bowl
Advanced Ceramics

How to make a Rose Bowl

Ingleton Pottery shows us how he Throws / Makes a Pottery Rose Bowl on the Wheel. This pot has a rolled beaded clay rim which gives it the appearance of being thicker than it is.

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

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

Advanced Ceramics

Jennifer McCurdy: How to create a beautiful Sculpture from a Vase

Jennifer McCurdy gives us a Fabulous demonstration on how she turns her Wheel-Thrown pots into Beautiful Organic Sculptures. So the next time you have a pot come off the wheel that you’re not happy with, why not try this out! Buy her new book “Vessels: A Conversation in Porcelain and

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How to Make Ceramic Luminaries

In this video, we see John Britt showing us how he creates ceramic luminaries for candles. John Britt is a studio potter in Baskerville, North

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The Clay Olympics

Do you have what it takes to represent your country in The Clay Olympics? Then we need you! To kick-off The Ceramics Congress in November

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