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2. Potter's wheel - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Japanese pottery and porcelain - Wikipedia

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   Japanese pottery strongly influenced British studio potter Bernard Leach (1887–1979), who is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". [31] He lived in Japan from 1909 to 1920 during the Taishō period and became the leading western interpreter of Japanese pottery and in turn influenced a number of artists abroad.

4. Jim McDowell (ceramic artist) - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Pottery - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. Robin Hopper - Wikipedia

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   In 1994, he produced a second series of five videos on design and aesthetics was produced, titled “Form and Function”, based on his second book “Functional Pottery”. He has subsequently produced: “Beginning to Throw on the Potter's Wheel”, “Advanced Throwing”.

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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 ...

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