Hand Build Pottery
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Spongeware Pottery
Emma Bridgewater revived the forgotten art of sponge decorating when she started her eponymous company twenty five years ago, selling her distinctive hand-printed pottery with its iconic polka dots, hearts and stars. Hugely popular today, spongeware had humble beginnings in the 19th Century when potteries in Glasgow and Staffordshire begun sponging simple coloured shapes onto…
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Pottery by Jessie
The Midwinter ware from the pre-Second World War and immediate post-war periods are of good quality, but are conventional and of relatively little interest to collectors. The Pottery was a mid-size manufacturer of tableware in the 1930s and there are some art deco patterns that would be of minor interest to collectors. From the end of the Second World War in 1945 until the…
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Playing In Mud
At Essex University a multi-user game of Dungeons and Dragons is drawing on new areas of artificial intelligence. Phil manchester went down to find out wht was happening in the computer room. The artificial intelligence (ai) department at one of the UK s leading technological universities is the last place you might expect to find people playing Dungeons and Dragons . But…
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Ceramics coil pots Designs
1. Flatten piece of clay to about 1/4 thickness. Use rolling pin or a slab roller. Cut slab to desired dimensions. Ahead of time prepare clay coils by hand or with an extruder. Make sure your pre made clay coils are covered with plastic to keep them soft - coils dry out very quickly! Make slab of clay with rolling pin Or with a slab roller Cut a slab base - 1/4 thick 2. Score…
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