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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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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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Slab and Coil Vessel

This week, Bridges Pottery shows how she constructs a large slab and coil vessel. Learn simple Step by step techniques to improve your hand building skills. Want to learn some extra techniques? We recommend Sculpting and Handbuilding.

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Used Pottery Wheels

Used Pottery Wheels : A Buyers Guide Used pottery wheels are amazing buys, if you think about it. Who is selling a pottery wheel? Someone not using a pottery wheel! Most of the time the used pottery wheels are in great condition. More often than not, the seller would have bought the pottery wheel wanting to

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Throwing a Textured Box with Hsin-Chuen Lin 林新春

Master potter Hsin-Chuen Lin shows how he throws a porcelain box on the wheel. By throwing the top and bottom of the box as the same piece of clay, he manages to create an amazing porcelain box, with a lid that looks beautiful and fits snugly. We simply love this

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How to Make Relief Decoration on Tile Using Shellac Resist

Handmade ceramic tiles are perfect for trying out different decoration techniques. In today’s video, tile maker Frank Giorgini demonstrates a wonderful shellac-resist technique to create relief decoration. The process is similar to wax resist, but the shellac dries quicker, and is easier to control. He also shows us how to repeat  the pattern onto other

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Raku Firing with Andrew Cummins

Andrew Cummins discusses the ancient art of pottery making, with an emphasis on raku firing. “Raku” is a Japanese term which roughly translates to “happy in the accident”, in reference to the random patterns that the heat & smoke create. It is also the Japanese surname of the family traditionally

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SIMON LEACH Throws an egg!

How To Throw an Egg? The amazing Simon Leach – from Simon Leach Potteries, author of the fantastic book “Simon Leach’s Pottery Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Throwing Beautiful, Functional Pots” – shows us the process of throwing an egg-shaped closed vessel. Why not have a go yourself this week,

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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