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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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Pottery Barn Burlington VT
WHERE: Pottery Barn, Burlington Town Center, 49 Church St, Burlington, VT 05401 Every year, starting the Monday after Thanksgiving, 50-plus COTS volunteers a night go “dialing-for-dollars” to raise money for COTS shelters and services. Working seven weekday evenings, these intrepid volunteers call 6, COTS donors from 6 to 9 p.m. and raise more than $190, for COTS. We need…
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Coiling clay
Children learned how to coil clay to make a clay snail as part of our work on Minibeasts. rang 1/2
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