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  2. Pottery Alley invites beginners with 'Wheel for Dummies' class

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    Pottery Alley of Lafayette, at 2605 Johnston St., offers classes, workshops and parties for all ages. It opened in 2007 and became one of the area's premiere retreats for clay artists, from ...

  3. Potter's wheel - Wikipedia

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    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 trimming excess clay from leather-hard dried ware that is stiff but malleable, and for applying incised decoration or rings of colour.

  4. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a potter is also called a pottery (plural potteries).

  5. YouTube Kids - Wikipedia

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    YouTube has also presented advocacy campaigns through special playlists featured on YouTube Kids, including "#ReadAlong" (a series of videos, primarily featuring kinetic typography) to promote literacy, [12] "#TodayILearned" (which featured a playlist of STEM-oriented programs and videos), [13] and "Make it Healthy, Make it Fun" (a ...

  6. Beginner Pottery - Wikipedia

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    The next day, Jeff enters pottery class with his finger wrapped up, and Rich offers to take a look at Jeff's finger, revealing that he is a doctor who takes pottery class to unwind. However, Jeff believes that he is a con-man who signs up for novice classes to attract girls.

  7. Kintsugi - Wikipedia

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    Lacquerware is a longstanding tradition in Japan [6] [7] and, at some point, kintsugi may have been combined with maki-e as a replacement for other ceramic repair techniques. . While the process is associated with Japanese craftsmen, the technique was also applied to ceramic pieces of other origins including China, Vietnam, and Kor

  8. White-ground technique - Wikipedia

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    In white-ground pottery, the vase is covered with a light or white slip of kaolinite. A similar slip had been used as carrier for vase paintings in the Geometric and Archaic periods. White-ground vases were produced, for example, in Ionia , Laconia and on the Cycladic islands , but only in Athens did it develop into a veritable separate style ...

  9. Samuel Crompton - Wikipedia

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    Samuel had two younger sisters. While he was a boy he lost his father and had to contribute to the family resources by spinning yarn, learning to spin on James Hargreaves's spinning jenny. [4] The deficiencies of the jenny imbued him with the idea of devising something better, which he worked on in secret for five or six years.