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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.
Pond Farm (also known as Pond Farm Workshops) was an American artists’ colony that began in the 1940s and, in one form or another, continued until 1985. [1] It is located near the Russian River resort town of Guerneville, California, about 75 mi (120 km) north of San Francisco.
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. [1]
The potters used slab-built construction and the "coiling" method, [3] [4] which involved working the clay into a long string which was wound round to form a shape and then modeled to form smooth walls. The potter's wheel was not used by pre-contact Native Americans. Some decoration of the clay was done at this stage by incising, defenstrating ...
At the Potter's Wheel is a 1914 American silent short drama film directed by Lorimer Johnston. [1] The film stars Charlotte Burton , Sydney Ayres , Caroline Cooke , Louise Lester , Jack Richardson and Vivian Rich .
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 potter's wheel from the middle of the 5th millennium BC is the oldest ever found, and predates evidence of wheels in Mesopotamia by several hundred years. [16] The culture also has the oldest evidence of wheels for vehicles, which predate any evidence of wheels for vehicles in Mesopotamia by several hundred years as well. [13] [17] [18] [19]
Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a mechanism that can generate a variety of forms. The operator is known as a turner, and the skills needed to use the tools were traditionally known as turnery. In pre-industrial England, these skills were sufficiently difficult to be known as "the mysteries of the turners' guild."