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2. Mexican ceramics - Wikipedia

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   White clay is a favorite to work with but many colors are used. A potter's wheel is not used. The bottom of the pot is molded and the upper part is created by the coil method. When the pot is dry, it is rubbed with a stone or other hard object to make it shine. This can take days. Pots are fired on the open ground using wood and manure for fuel.

3. Terracotta - Wikipedia

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   Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta [2] (Italian: [ˌtɛrraˈkɔtta]; lit. ' baked earth '; [3] from Latin terra cocta 'cooked earth'), [4] is a clay-based non-vitreous ceramic [5] fired at relatively low temperatures. It is therefore a term used for earthenware objects of certain types, as set out below.

4. Stangl Pottery - Wikipedia

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   Abraham Fulper later became Hill's partner and Fulper bought the company in 1860, naming it Fulper Pottery. Fulper Pottery also still created storage crocks and red clay pipes, but Fulper's sons later helped the business at the end of the 19th century, and they produced fire-proof cookware alongside the Germ-Proof Filter.

5. Minoan pottery - Wikipedia

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   Little is known about the way the pottery was produced, but it was probably in small artisanal workshops, often clustered in settlements near good sources of clay for potting. For many, potting may well have been a seasonal activity, combined with farming, although the volume and sophistication of later wares suggests full-time specialists, and ...

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7. Clay - Wikipedia

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   Cooking pots, art objects, dishware, smoking pipes, and even musical instruments such as the ocarina can all be shaped from clay before being fired. Ancient peoples in Mesopotamia adopted clay tablets as the first known writing medium. [8] Clay was chosen due to the local material being easy to work with and widely available. [26]