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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

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

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Guy Van Leemput – Porcelain slip balloon bowls

Guy van Leemput has a wonderful technique of placing coloured porcelain slip onto balloons. (You can learn how he does this in The Ceramic School Workshop: Guy Van Leemput – How to make a paper-thin porcelain bowl) Using balloons as a base allows him to create very thin and fragile looking

Advanced Ceramics

How to Make a Pottery Butter Dish

In this video George Sifounios from Sifoutv Pottery shows us how he makes his pottery butter dishes by throwing them on the potter’s wheel. Simple, beautiful, functional design, and something you could easily do at home!  If you haven’t yet got a potters wheel at home, but want to start,

Advanced Ceramics

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

how to create a scalloped vase
Advanced Ceramics

How To Create a Scalloped Vase

David Cuzick shows us how he throws a porcelain scalloped vase, and the results are beautiful. Have you tried throwing a scalloped vase before? Why not give it a go! Do you want to see more content like this? Don’t worry, we don’t sell or spam your email address. You can

Advanced Ceramics

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

Advanced Ceramics

How to make a Ceramic Colander

One of the things that happens when you focus too much on pottery is that you only make cups and  bowls and vases… you forget that there are loads of other things to make – like ceramic colanders! Well don’t worry, Patricia Bridges from Bridges Pottery is here to show us

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How to make a DIY Light Box

DIY Light Boxes: How to make your own DIY Light Box – so you can start taking Professional Photographs of your work.