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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 ...
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.
The potter's wheel: In a process called "throwing" (coming from the Old English word thrawan which means to twist or turn, [20]) a ball of clay is placed in the centre of a turntable, called the wheel-head, which the potter rotates with a stick, with foot power or with a variable-speed electric motor. During the process of throwing, the wheel ...
The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down is a Canadian reality competition television series, premiered on CBC Television on February 8, 2024. [1] Adapted from the British series The Great Pottery Throw Down , the series is a pottery competition to find Canada's best potter.
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.
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