How to Make Pottery Jewellery
How to Make Pottery Jewellery Pottery jewellery sits at a wonderful crossroads between two ancient crafts: ceramics and adornment. People have been wearing clay beads, pendants, and decorative pieces for…
Selling Your Pottery in the UK: Craft Fairs and Online
Selling Your Pottery in the UK: Craft Fairs and Online You have spent hours at the wheel or the workbench. You have wedged clay, thrown pots, trimmed them, glazed them,…
Pottery and Mental Health: Why It’s Therapeutic
Pottery and Mental Health: Why It's Therapeutic There's something quietly extraordinary about sitting down at a wheel, pressing your hands into a lump of cold clay, and watching something take…
Making a Pottery Teapot: An Intermediate Project Explained
Making a Pottery Teapot: An Intermediate Project Explained The teapot is one of pottery's most satisfying challenges. It asks you to throw multiple separate components, join them together with confidence,…
How to Recycle and Reclaim Clay
How to Recycle and Reclaim Clay Every potter, no matter how experienced, ends up with scraps. A trimmed foot ring here, a collapsed wall there, a mug handle that simply…
Air Dry Clay vs Kiln-Fired Clay: A Beginner Comparison
Air Dry Clay vs Kiln-Fired Clay: A Beginner's Comparison Starting out in pottery and ceramics can feel like standing at the bottom of a very tall hill. There are unfamiliar…
Raku Pottery: A Guide to This Dramatic Firing Technique
Raku Pottery: A Guide to This Dramatic Firing Technique There are few moments in ceramics quite as thrilling as watching a glowing red pot being lifted from a kiln with…
Electric Kiln vs Gas Kiln: Which Is Better for UK Beginners?
Electric Kiln vs Gas Kiln: Which Is Better for UK Beginners? Choosing your first kiln is one of the most significant decisions you will make as a pottery beginner. It…
Underglaze vs Overglaze: What’s the Difference?
Underglaze vs Overglaze: What's the Difference? If you are new to pottery and ceramics, the world of glazing can feel overwhelming. There are shelves full of bottles and jars at…
Common Wheel Throwing Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Common Wheel Throwing Mistakes and How to Fix Them Every potter remembers their first time sitting at a wheel. The clay spins, you lean in with confidence, and within about…