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How to Pit-Fire Pottery
Firing pottery with an open flame in a pit or barrel yields unique and beautiful effects. Adding chemicals and household substances can add flashes of color.
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San Ildefonso and Santa Clara Pottery
The fabulous black Pueblo pottery seen in art books, antique stores, or fine art stores, originated from two New Mexico pueblos just north of Santa Fe.
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Wheel Throwing Tools: Japanese
Now that you have a full complement of throwing tools, it's time to get fancy and explore traditional Japanese pottery tools made out of bamboo, wood and iron.
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Wheel Throwing Tools: Beyond Basic
Now that you're throwing larger cylinders and bowls, it's time to try tackling bottles, jars and teapots. Here are suggestions to expand on the basic pottery tool kit.
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Wheel Throwing Tools: Basic Kit
You need very little to throw a pot on the wheel: a pin tool, a sponge and a wire tool. But pottery kits come with a few more mystery objects. Find out what these can do.
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Popular Pottery Techniques
Pinching yourself differentiating between soft slab and hard slab? Coiling your brains around throwing and moulding? Find out what some of these pottery terms mean.
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Painting Ceramic Bird Figurines
Ceramic figurines include bisque birds decorated with glazes and kiln fired.
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Design Decoration on Bisque
Choose a focal point in your choice of design and produce a unique decoration by painting on bisque ceramic. Glazes/stains are used and brilliant colours is the result.
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DIY Improvised Press Moulds
Can't get hold of a plaster press mould? No problem. There're objects in the house and kitchen that will do just as well. Here are suggestions for substitutes around you.
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Make a Press Moulded Bowl or Dish
Plaster press moulds can be used to start various projects or to produce multiples of any one design. Find out how to use one properly and how to fix basic problems.
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How to Make a Simple Coiled Pot
Coil and join clay "snakes" into a pot or bowl. A bit of patience and imagination is all you need!
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Make a Pinch Pot Piggy Bank
Celebrate the Chinese Year of the Fire Pig by making your own Piggy Bank using pinch pots and handbuilding techniques.
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How to Throw a Piggy Bank
Now I'm happily rolling in mud, here are instructions on how to make another Piggy Bank. But this one is for potters comfortable with throwing and altering bottles.
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How to Make a Simple Pinch Pot
Transform a simple lump of clay into a beautiful pot or bowl as if by magic! All you need is your imagination, your hands, a damp sponge and a bit of patience.
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