How-To: One Piece Slipcasting
Slipcasting is a molding process for ceramics that can be used to produce hollow forms having a relatively thin shell. It is an ancient, elegant, ingenious technique, consisting of six basic steps…
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Glowback: Arduino-Powered Clay Sculpture
Ben Hollis and Eva Funderburgh chose an unusual material to house their Arduino in: clay. Glowback, the little creature they’ve created, has nodules on its back made of transluscent porcelain. The porcelain gives off a soft glow in staggered rhythms provided by the super bright LEDs underneath the nodules.
Intricate Porcelain Skulls
Part of a series called “Predictive Dreams” by Japanese ceramicist Katsuyo Aoki. Like Paul Overton said: “Can’t wait until NoahScalin gets a look at these.”
Car Tire Pottery Wheel
Mississippian Hillar Bergman is known, first and foremost, as a musician—he plays the fiddle. His YouTube channel, as catinnahat, has several videos describing his wonderful “apocalyptech” potter’s wheel, and demonstrating his skillful use thereof. It’s just an old wheel and tire, mounted on an oak stump with a pair of pipe flanges and a short nipple, and spun up to speed with a tire iron stuck through the holes in the hub.
Ask CRAFT – Modifying Vintage China and Crafty Ethics
It’s time for the first installment of Ask CRAFT! This week I cover a question from Pollie in New Jersey about adding new elements to vintage dishes, while keeping them food-safe, plus Theri from Ohio writes in with a craft fair ethics question. Don’t forget to email me your crafty conundrums at becky@craftzine.com. If I didn’t answer your question this week, it doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten you! I’ve been receiving some stellar questions and I’m saving some of the best ones for future installments. Keep ’em comin’!
Maker Birthdays: Eva Zeisel
Born in Budapest, Hungary on November 13, 1906 to a prosperous family, Eva Zeisel (nee Striker) would go on to become one of the most influential industrial designers of the twentieth century. Though she doesn’t consider herself an industrial designer, but rather a “maker of useful things”, at 104 she continues to crank out some of the most sought-after contemporary modern design.
Greenwich House Pottery’s Summer Arts Program for Kids
Non-profit ceramics studio Greenwich House Pottery (GHP) in New York City is in the running for a $5,000 grant that they’ll use to fund summer arts programming for NYC kids in need. And they need your vote. For more than 100 years, Greenwich House Pottery has offered classes and workshops to New Yorkers of all […]
