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  2. Pottery Alley invites beginners with 'Wheel for Dummies' class

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    Pottery Alley's Wheel for Dummies allows people to try something new thanks to its inviting name and hands-on approach for beginners. Pottery Alley of Lafayette, at 2605 Johnston St., offers ...

  3. Tubelining - Wikipedia

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    Tubelining is a technique of ceramic decoration. It involves squeezing a thin line of clay body through a nozzle onto the ware being decorated. An alternative term is "slip trailing".

  4. 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 ...

  5. Slip casting - Wikipedia

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    This technique is typically used to form complicated shapes like figurative ceramics that would be difficult to be reproduced by hand or other forming techniques. [1] The technique involves a clay body slip , usually prepared in a blunger , being poured into plaster moulds and allowed to form a layer, the cast , on the internal walls of the mould.

  6. Potter's wheel - Wikipedia

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    The pottery wheel is an important component to create arts and craft products. [1] The techniques of jiggering and jolleying can be seen as extensions of the potter's wheel: in jiggering, a shaped tool is slowly brought down onto the plastic clay body that has been placed on top of the rotating plaster mould. The jigger tool shapes one face ...

  7. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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    pottery where decoration in slip is a main feature. Includes slip-painting, slip-trailing, and many other techniques Slop Another name for slurry. Soaking A period during a firing cycle when a set temperature is maintained. The period of time at the maintained temperature is called the soak, hold or dwell. Soda ash

  8. Pinch pot - Wikipedia

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    It is a basic pot making method often taught to young children or beginners. The process begins with a ball of clay. Thumbs are pushed into the center, and then rudimentary walls are created by pinching and turning the pot. The pot is then pushed on a flat surface to create a flat surface, thereby creating the base.

  9. Horse hair raku - Wikipedia

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    Horse hair vase. Horse hair raku is a method of decorating pottery through the application of horsehair and other dry carbonaceous material to the heated ware. The burning carbonaceous material creates smoke patterns and carbon trails on the surface of the heated ware that remain as decoration after the ware cools.