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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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Ceramics carving techniques
I first saw Eric Stearns work on social media. He posted this crazy cool video of his piercing process and I was mesmerized! My interest in carving and piercing clay has never been high, but after watching Eric work, I knew I needed to try this. His piercing technique piqued my interest and inspired me to give it a go! In today s post, an excerpt from the latest issue of Pottery…
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Pottery made in Mississippi
It began after he returned from radar duty in World War II. Lee McCarty, following his graduation from Columbia and a five-year stint teaching chemistry and physics at the University of Mississippi, finally decided he was going home to the town of Merigold, in the Mississippi Delta. There, he planned to make pottery out of clay. “While we were still up in Oxford, ” he says…
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Pottery Companies
Click to Enlarge Nelson McCoy Pottery Works 1926 In April of 1910 The Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Company, located in Roseville, Ohio, was formed by Nelson McCoy and his father J. W. McCoy. They began to manufacture and sell functional and decorative stoneware. They also mined, bought and sold clay. This part of their business provided clay to many of the area potteries…
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