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2. Potter's wheel - Wikipedia

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   Japanese pottery is thrown oppositely, with the wheel spinning clockwise and the right hand on the interior of the pot. [19] However, modern wheels powered by electric motors often allow for rotation in either direction, allowing the potter to choose which direction works best for their technique, hand dominance and personal preferences. [20]

3. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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   -- "The term pottery includes many varieties of ware from the crudest vessels of prehistoric times to the most beautiful decorated porcelains, stoneware and earthenware; it also includes many articles such as large grain-jars used in ancient times for storing corn and other dry materials, wine-jars and modern sanitaryware and the large tanks ...

4. Pottery - Wikipedia

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   Hand building a jar. 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. Heath Ceramics - Wikipedia

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   In 1947, Edith began to design and execute a limited hand-thrown production of her pottery and tableware with four apprentices in her own studio. Other retailers, such as Neiman Marcus, Marshall Field's, Bullocks, and the City of Paris began to order her tableware, [7] and in 1948 she opened Heath Ceramics in Sausalito. Edith designed the ...

6. Bauer Pottery - Wikipedia

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   In The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (film), a collection of Bauer ring dinnerware is used in the kitchen.; In Mildred Pierce, Mildred uses Bauer mixing bowls.; In the television show The New Normal, Bryan and David's home is decorated with Bauer pottery, and they use Bauer ringware as their dinnerware.

7. 15 Things You Should Always Buy at the Thrift Store ... - AOL

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   Pottery. Jennifer Sams, the owner of the mid-century modern vintage store City Issue, loves to hunt for signed vintage pottery at thrift stores. She has occasionally unearthed treasures like a ...

8. Ceramic forming techniques - Wikipedia

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   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 areas of technology. For example, such methods are required for producing advanced, high-temperature structural parts such as heat engine components, recuperators and the ...

9. Artisanal Talavera of Puebla and Tlaxcala - Wikipedia

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   All pieces are hand-thrown on a potter's wheel and the glazes contain tin and lead, as they have since colonial times. This glaze must craze, be slightly porous and milky-white, but not pure white. There are only six permitted colors: blue, yellow, black, green, orange and mauve, and these colors must be made from natural pigments.