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Classic potter's kick-wheel in Erfurt, Germany 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.
Byron Temple (1933–2002) was an American potter. [1]Temple learned to throw on the wheel at Ball State University as an undergrad in his native Indiana. [2] After college and serving in the U.S. Army, Temple discovered A Potter's Book, written by the English potter, Bernard Leach, considered by mny to be the grandfather of modern hand thrown functional studio pottery.
Detail of woodturning in work A turned wood bowl with natural edges Bowl turning. Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a mechanism that can generate a
A stone potter's wheel found at the Mesopotamian city of Ur in modern-day Iraq has been dated to about 30,000 BC, but fragments of wheel-thrown pottery of an even earlier date have been recovered in the same area. This is way off. The dates need to have a zero removed.
A pottery gauge is one of various tools used in pottery to ensure that pots thrown on a potter's wheel are uniform in size or shape. Some pottery gauges simply ensure that the height and diameter are consistent, others are templates or shapers.
While he was in the Army stationed at Ansbach, Germany in the 1960s, he had a part time job at the base craft shop that had a kick-wheel pottery wheel. With no one at the base to instruct him, McDowell found a group of German potters in Nuremberg. Although he spoke little German, he explained that he wanted to learn to throw on the wheel.
An important advance was the invention of the potter's wheel, which rotated on a central axis. This enabled the potter to rotate the wheel and the vessel with one hand, while shaping the vessel with the other hand. [21] According to Dorothea Arnold, the slow potter's wheel was invented some time during the Fourth Dynasty. [22]
For centuries, pottery has been central to pueblo life as a feature of ceremonial and utilitarian usage. The clay is locally sourced, most frequently handmade (not thrown on a potters wheel nor cast in a mold), and fired traditionally in an earthen pit. [1] [2] These items take the form of storage jars, canteens, serving bowls, seed jars, and ...