Kiln Plate Protector
To protect your expensive kiln plates from dripping glaze, it’s best to give them a protective coating with kiln plate protector, also known as batwash.
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Pottery lessons: better online or in person?
What’s the better option: online pottery lessons or a ‘live’ class in a studio?
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Making test tiles
Testing, testing, and more testing! You can’t avoid it. For every clay you use you’ll need to make a test tile. It helps you chart the shrinkage and colour of the clay, and test your underglazes, engobes and glazes.
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Wheel throwing versus handbuilding: what do you choose?
Time to compare: what are the pros and cons of wheel throwing versus handbuilding?
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Glazing pottery: 3 tips for beginners
Glazing pottery is an art in itself. Especially if you combine different glazes. We’re sharing 3 tips for beginners.
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How do you take your work off of the pottery wheel?
After a lot of wedging, centring, shaping and correcting you’re finally done. You stop your potter’s wheel and admire your work. You can’t wait to see it fired and glazed. But there’s one more thing you need to do first: you need to take it off the wheel without damaging it.
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Making pottery at home: here’s how to get started!
What do you need to start learning pottery at home? A potter’s wheel, a kiln, a work surface and an online course from the Cursist. Discover all of our tips here!
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When is a glaze food safe?
Pottery offers a world of possibilities. Do you want simple and functional? Or do you have a unique artistic vision? No limits, anything goes: it’s up to you what you want to make. Except there is actually one limit you can’t ignore: if you’re making tableware, you have to make sure your work is food safe. And that means taking a few things into account.
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Oxidation firing versus reduction firing
No ceramics without a ceramic kiln. Depending on the type of ceramic kiln you have, you can either do an oxidation firing or a reduction firing and thus influence the result.
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Is pottery an expensive hobby?
For those considering starting out with clay, the beginning can be quite overwhelming. You need quite a lot of tools, and that raises an important question: what does it all cost?
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