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2. Potter's wheel - Wikipedia

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   Potter's wheel. An electric potter's wheel, with bat (green disk) and throwing bucket. Not shown is a foot pedal used to control the speed of the wheel, similar to a sewing machine. In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware. The wheel may also be used during the process of ...

3. The Wilson Potteries - Wikipedia

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   The business probably included at least one work shed with pottery wheel, a pug mill for processing clay and a groundhog kiln. [1] According to James Wilson's son, work at the pottery was seasonal. Ware could only be produced between March and September because cold weather adversely affected the clay's consistency.

4. Ceramic forming techniques - Wikipedia

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   Ceramic forming techniques are ways of forming ceramics, which are used to make everything from tableware such as teapots to engineering ceramics such as computer parts. Pottery techniques include the potter's wheel, slip casting and many others. Methods for forming powders of ceramic raw materials into complex shapes are desirable in many ...

5. Michael Cardew - Wikipedia

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   Cardew was the first apprentice at the Leach Pottery, St Ives, Cornwall, in 1923. [ 3 ] He shared an interest in slipware with Bernard Leach and was influenced by the pottery of Shoji Hamada. In 1926 he left St Ives to restart the Greet Potteries at Winchcombe in Gloucestershire. With the help of former chief thrower Elijah Comfort and fourteen ...

6. Korean pottery and porcelain - Wikipedia

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   Korean pottery and porcelain. A celadon incense burner in Goryeo ware with kingfisher glaze. National Treasure No. 95 of South Korea. Korean ceramic history (도자기; dojagi) begins with the oldest earthenware from around 8000 BC. Throughout the history, the Korean peninsula has been home to lively, innovative, and sophisticated art making.

7. Japanese pottery and porcelain - Wikipedia

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   Pottery and porcelain (陶磁器, tōjiki, also yakimono (焼きもの), or tōgei (陶芸)) is one of the oldest Japanese crafts and art forms, dating back to the Neolithic period. [ 1 ] Types have included earthenware, pottery, stoneware, porcelain, and blue-and-white ware. Japan has an exceptionally long and successful history of ceramic ...