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ClayCraft

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Welcome
It’s heartening to see that studios and galleries are starting to re-open. I completely understand that there’s an economic need to start returning to some semblance of normality, and I know how hard it has been for everyone. The pandemic has hit eve
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Editor: Rachel Graham; claycraft.ed@kelsey.co.uk Consultant editors: Jacqui Atkin, Kevin Millward Contributors: Jacqui Atkin, Alan Ault, Paul Bailey, Linda Bloomfield, Billy Byles, Doug Fitch, Kevin Millward, Alan Parris, Tracey Parsons, Simon Shaw P
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Reader Offer!
The publisher of Linda Bloomfield's new book, Special Effect Glazes, has kindly offered our readers a 30% discount. Just go to bloomsbury.com/specialeffectglazes and enter the code: GLAZES30 at the checkout. ■
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Arts Council Funding
Kingsgate Workshops is thrilled to announce that it has received funding from the Arts Council Emergency Response Fund to run a socially distant programme for the next six months. It will be commissioning digital artworks for desktops and running a n
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The Potters Gallery Open
This Conwy gallery is now open, initially for limited days due to some of its members isolating, and of course with safety measures in place for visitors and staff. Running for the whole of August 2020 is: Maker of the Month – Philip Jolley Wonderful
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Appeal For Children's Clay Kit Funding
The Mud Gang, a small pottery studio in Lambeth, is hoping to supply The Childhood Trust with 50 clay kits for disadvantaged children in its local community. The Trust works with primary aged children at schools in Brixton who receive free school mea
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Wetheriggs Update
There has been a development in the campaign to save the historic Wetheriggs Pottery site. The developer who bought the site has offered to sell the plot containing the historic listed Wetheriggs Pottery buildings, including the unique Beehive kiln f
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Mugs Five Ways
■ Clay – stoneware or earthenware (see note about clay weights, below) ■ Tools for throwing – water bowl, sponge, rib, cutting wire ■ Turning tools of choice ■ Glazes of choice to suit clay type You will learn how to throw five different shapes in th
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Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention
Before Covid, I was a small business owner running a successful and growing pottery business. By Easter, like so many other craftspeople, stuck indoors with no income and dwindling clay supplies, I realised necessity really is the mother of invention
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Colour Sample Panel
Paper to make templates ■ Cutting knife ■ White firing clay – porcelain is best if making a colour panel for lustre, but make the panel from the clay you mostly use – earthenware or stoneware ■ Rolling pin, plastic sheet, 3-5mm roller guides ■ Absorb
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Bisque Plate Ring
■ Circular batt in a size you would like to make your plate ■ Clay – any type will do ■ Stiff card ■ Craft knife ■ Ruler ■ Marker pen ■ Stiff plastic kitchen scraper – the type used for cake making are best ■ Cutting mat if you have one ■ A small blo
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Join us for step-by-step makes, tips and inspiration. Inside every issue of ClayCraft you’ll find practical handson guides to our projects – throwing and hand-building; Linda Bloomfield’s regular feature on glazes, and Doug Fitch’s diary column. Othe
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Commemorative Work
The Water Dragon theme was inspired by, and is a celebration of, the prime minister’s name – Hsien Loong – which was given to him by his father and means ‘Illustrious Dragon’. In keeping with this theme, fluidity was a key part of the design. Jacob c
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Back To Basics – A Return To The Cylinder
■ Clay – earthenware or stoneware. Any colour, but white stoneware if you want to put a celadon-type glaze on the finished item ■ Tools for throwing – water bowl, sponge, cutting wire, rib ■ Glaze of choice to suit clay type We really are going right
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How To Use Glazy Part 5:
Glazy.org is an online glaze database created by Derek Au. Most recipes on Glazy are high-fire (cone 10, 1300°C) or mid-fire stoneware (cone 6, 1240°C) but there are also some earthenware glaze recipes. At earthenware temperatures (cone 04-02, 1060-1
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Win!
Enter online at: claycraft.co.uk/bookcompetition The first two names drawn at random after the competition closes at midnight on 21 August 2020 will each receive a copy of the book* Experienced ceramicist and ClayCraft contributor Linda Bloomfield’s
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Firing – Electric Kilns
• Electric kilns are generally the best choice for the beginner – especially those living in urban environments because they burn cleanly, are safe and easy to fire with generally predictable outcomes. • These kilns are available in many sizes, some
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Competition
In celebration of good health and 50 years of good business, the team at Northern Kilns is giving away one of its newly launched plugin kilns - The LITTLE CHIEF The LITTLE CHIEF is the smallest kiln in the Chieftain range, a premium top-loading kiln,
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Pottle Muddery Gets Potty-mouthed
It seems so long ago that I made my Hope blooms. So much has happened; so much has changed; so much remains uncertain. Every now and then I find myself letting off steam with a few choice words; sometimes more than a few. Occasionally I let out some
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Doug’s DIARY
The recent weeks have seen weather in extremes, which is quite characteristic of the climate up here. After a prolonged spell of scorching sunshine, worrying that the river that supplies water to our house might run dry, we’re now into the rainy seas
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Courses
Courses: All levels from beginners to intermediate. Taster courses, general pottery and throwing courses. Open access facility for more advanced makers coming soon Dates: See website Location: Dumfries & Galloway clayworksstudios.co.uk Courses: Class

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