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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Kintsugi and the Art of Beautiful Repair
Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.” But the alternative “better than new” aesthetic—that a conspicuous, artful repair actually adds value—has obvious symbolic appeal for the DIY community. Here’s an authoritative definition of kintsugi from Charly Iten, a noted expert on Japanese art…
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The Homemade Earth and Fire of Jonathan Garratt
It’s been over a decade since I’ve thrown clay on a wheel, but watching the video below by David Hobson of Dorset-based potter Jonathan Garratt makes me want to return to the art!
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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I have an obsession with graffiti. And dishes. And New York. New York Delft by lovegrove&repucci is making me very happy. These high art tablesettings are surpisingly affordable, at least when compared to other high art tablesettings! The classic tradition of Dutch Delft craftsmanship hits the streets of New York City. Presenting the ‘New York […]
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