Category archives: Pottery

There’s no doubt that at the heart of any functional household is a practical kitchen space. Of all the rooms in a house, it’s probably fair to say that the kitchen is the one that gets used the most, and for a variety of different tasks too, meaning it needs to be a multi-functional workspace. …

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We’re not usually fans of novelty kitchen items but this is one we couldn’t resist. We recently purchased the Smart Breakfast Master toaster and it’s been a big hit in our fmaily home! We’ve only used it when our sistant family has stayed over, but it really did go down a storm. It’s a large …

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Hand building is a type of clay moulding. This is actually one of the the most earliest techniques known. The use of both hands enables a crafter to construct circles of clay, mixing smooth foundations of clay, or grabbing some mixture of these or strong balls of clay and moulding them together to form a …

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There are many materials that are called clay. The overall construction of different clays vary, including: Plasticity, the malleability; the degree to that they will absorb water. Clay systems that are different also differ in the way by which they react when shot in the kiln. A clay body can be adorned before or after …

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