Tutorials
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The Complete Guide on How to Dry Your Clay Correctly
Pottery work is known as one of the most popular and traditional jobs in the world, it requires different tricks and techniques to be accomplished properly. Getting dough of clay and turning it into a beautiful piece of pottery is not a matter of joke. A long process with several steps needs to be followed…
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What Does Float Mean When Talking About Pottery Glazes?
Started by the Egyptians for the first time in the 1st century BC, glazing gradually occupied a place in the world of pottery decoration. It then became famous in China and countries of the Middle East and later on disseminated across the entire world. Glazing is one of the most effective ways of turning an…
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How to Repair Hairline Crack in Pottery
A ceramic gift, such as a mug or a pottery bowl, is unique. However, it is a big bummer if you see one of those little hairline cracks on it. You never know how it got there, and it does let you down, especially if it was your favorite piece! But it is relieving since…
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How to Trim Pottery Bowls?
Pottery work is a rendition of all kinds of creative efforts that makes a pottery piece a beautiful and excellent one. Every little detail of a pot is followed up by a lot of small tricks that ultimately sum up a great piece of artwork. In the job of pottery, from throwing the clay, at…
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Under Glazing Pottery for Beginners
Pottery decoration has always been a fantastic specimen of a human’s incredible ability of creativity. There are so many ways of decorating potteries, but glazing is the most popular one amongst all of them. Glazing is nothing but an aesthetically beautiful up-gradation of an ordinary earthenware. Under glazing is one of the many ways to…
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The Complete Guide on How To Glaze Pottery
After being used by the Egyptians for the first time during the 1st century BC, glazing became one of the most popular forms of pottery decorations. Gradually, it earned popularity in China and the Middle East countries, and later on, the whole world started acquiring the pottery glazing technique. It is not unknown to all…
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Can You Fix Off Center Pottery On The Wheel?
It’s funny how, at times, our excitement can go from an immense positive level to a negative one in a second. For instance, you have decided to play with clay, and you throw the clay on the wheel with your power-packed enthusiasm, only to realize that the moment you do it, you end up having…
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How to Soften Pottery Clay?
Working with pottery clays is fun. But there are some problems associated with pottery clays that can make your work hectic and tiresome, such as the hardening of your pottery clay. Though pottery clays remain unchanged for a long time, still sometimes, they can act differently by becoming rock-hard. But, throwing away your rock-hard clay…
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The Top Tips for Glazing Your Pottery
How to make your pottery work look marvelous? Simple, you only need to add some glaze to it, and see the magic. Adding a glaze to your pottery gives completion to your piece of art. The glaze is applied onto the pot like a coating to provide it with the look and color of your…
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Opening Clay on a Pottery Wheel for Beginners
Pottery is a traditional form of art that is not too easy to master. The process is time-consuming and requires patience. It includes several steps, but one of the essential steps is throwing clay on a pottery wheel. The method of throwing, in turn, consists of 7 steps, namely, sticking, coning, centering, opening, pulling, shaping,…
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How to Fix the 10 Most Common Glazing Mistakes Made by Beginners?
What makes a pottery work look complete and good? It’s glazing. After you make a beautiful pottery work, you need to finish it off by following the proper steps and techniques of glazing. Glazing not only finishes your work to look complete but also leaves a coating on your pot to make it long-lasting, waterproof,…