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Understanding Glaze Components Part 4: Colorants

Welcome to Part 4 of our blog series, Understanding Ceramic Glaze Components, where we demystify the basic construction of glazes. In Parts 1-3 we looked at the three foundational components of all glazes: glass-formers, fluxes, and stabilizers. In today’s post we’re taking a look at a glaze element that is

Beginner Ceramics

How to Center Clay – A Beginner’s Guide

This amazing video shown above which is full of helpful visual insights was posted by Florian Gadsby.​ Hey, so you wanna center clay on the wheel? Awesome. Let’s get into it. If you’ve ever sat down at the wheel, slapped a ball of clay on there, and watched it wobble

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How to Throw a Marbled Mug

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Chris Dunn – Pit Firing Pottery

Chris Dunn, Wellington-based potter and ceramicist shows us how he creates his beautiful pit-fired pottery. Want to try Pit firing yourself? Check out the books on

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