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High end Pottery
Folkmoot USAs International Festival Day turned downtown Waynesville into a world bazaar featuring food, art and dance. The free event attracted thousands of people to Main Street, where vendors offered everything from homemade ice cream to high-end pottery. Folkmoot USA, North Carolinas international folk festival, is based in Waynesville. International Festival Day is one…
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Easy clay Sculpture
Q: Is pottery clay any good for sculpture? A: There are various products that are called clay of one sort or another. The most basic is water-based or potter s clay. This is what has been used for millennia for making ceramic objects, and it has been the primary material in which sculptors have traditionally worked out their ideas. It is formed by the natural decomposition…
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Pottery Dishes Sets
NL2 Offered here is a rare find, This gallery pottery dinnerware was designed by potter Ken Booth of Washington, Each piece is signed and dated 1980 and consists of: 6-DINNER, 8 LUNCH, 6 CUPS SAUCERS 1 has hairline crack, 5 BOWLS and ONE SUGAR BOWL
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Popular Ceramics
Looking for a new ring that is fashionable and reasonably priced? Consider ceramic. Ceramic jewelry is becoming more and more popular over the past couple of years. The sleek and shiny, modern, high-tech look attracts many people who want something eye-catching. More practical folk may opt for ceramic due to the durability and inexpensive price. Some just like an unconventional…
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Heath Ceramics New York
Photo Credit Mariko Reed Heath Ceramics finally has a store in the Bay Area. Last week, the 62-year-old company based in Sausalito, Calif., opened a 500-square-foot shop in the Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco. The company tapped Commune Design, the same firm it used for its Los Angeles shop, to design this space. “The design is highly functional and has a great…
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Ideas to make with clay
Modelling clay can be made from a number of ingredients (see Wikipedia) but at home it is usually made from flour and water. Oil or cream of tartar is added to help with elasticity - and salt is usually used to help preserve the clay (and stop it going moldy). If you are new to making playdough, then there is a little more to it than just throwing all the ingredients into a…
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Cool Ceramic pots
DJ Sara Cox will present The Great British Pottery Throw Down. Photograph: Jo Hale/Getty Images “It’s messy, it’s hot, it’s pottery.” So runs the trail line for the new BBC2 craft show that hopes to repeat the ratings triumph of The Great British Bake Off. It sounds an unlikely, even absurd, pitch, but not that long ago so would pushing the mass appeal of a programme about…
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New Hampshire Pottery
REPORT FROM ENGLAND: From the recent NH Potters Guild meeting: Kit Cornell gave an animated and informative account of her recent trip to England to study pottery. Her trip included visits to the Farnham Craft Study Center and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In addition to learning more about the origin and availability of Cornish Stone, she visited numerous potteries…
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Smoothing clay Sculpture
Shell-Shock molds Shell-Shock by Smooth-On is one of the best mold-making products on the market. It is ideal for making fast, lightweight, rigid molds for creating silicone appliances and effects (use as a replacement for ‘stone molds ). Being a Urethane base product, it needs a good mold release. FuseFX F-201 Pure White is an excellent silicone paint that can be used as a…
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