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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. Mississippian culture pottery - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Woodturning - Wikipedia

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   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

5. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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   Potter A person who makes ceramic articles. Potter's clay The clay used by the potter (Potter's) Wheel Pottery All fired ceramic wares or materials which, when shaped, contain a significant amount of clay. Exceptions are those used for technical, structural or refractory applications.

6. Minoan pottery - Wikipedia

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   In Linear B the word for potter is "ke-ra-me-u". [5] Technically, slips were widely used, with a variety of effects well understood. The potter's wheel appears to have been available from the MM IB, but other "handmade" methods of forming the body remained in use, and were needed for objects with sculptural shapes. [6]

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8. Furnitureland South - Wikipedia

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   A $15 million, 250,000-square-foot distribution center opened in 2001, replacing five warehouses. [10] Good Morning America did a story on Furnitureland South on April 29, 2002. [11] In 2008, a $15 million addition gave the distribution center 225,000 additional square feet, for a total of 475,000 square feet that also included corporate ...

9. Bizen ware - Wikipedia

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   Most vessels are made on a potter's wheel. [16] Although one body of clay and one type of firing are used, there is a wide variety of results due to the properties of the clay. The nature of Bizen ware surfaces depends entirely on yohen, or "kiln effects." The placement of the individual clay workpieces in the kiln causes them to be fired under ...