#68

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Welcome
I t’sdefinitely been an unsettling few weeks. The Queen’s death, sadly, wasn’t much of a surprise. She had been getting obviously frailer over the past few months, but even though we all knew it was coming at some point, when something like this happ
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Linda Bloomfield
On the hottest day of the summer, I travelled to Paris to teach a glaze workshop at La Mine Atelier de Céramique. I had been invited by ceramicists Claudia Cauville and Brook Sigal, both graduates of Central Saint Martins in Ceramic Design and now li
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Pebble Bottle
■ White clay – suitable for hand building – earthenware or stoneware ■ General wooden tools and ribs ■ Wooden spatula ■ 5mm dowel ■ Brushes for glaze application ■ Masking tape ■ Brush-on glazes 1 The effect we’re aiming for in this project is
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The Accidental Studio
We’ve chatted to a few home studio owners in the past couple of years, and although all of them are intrigued about how we run our classes, one comment comes up again and again. “I couldn’t deal with people all the time.” They are quite right about t
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Rustic Earthenware Bowl
■ A bowl mould of the type made in issue 63, ‘Making a hump and press mould’ ■ Red earthenware clay ■ Rolling pin, plastic sheet, 5mm and 10mm thick roller guides ■ Ribs ■ White slip (optional) ■ Transparent or white glaze ■ Brushes for glaze app
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Bug Hotel
■ Stoneware clay – amount depends on the size of hotel ■ Rolling pin, 10mm roller guides, plastic sheet ■ General tools – ribs, serrated kidney, wooden spatula, surform etc ■ Dowelling of various diameters ■ Surface decoration of choice – it c
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Doug’s DIARY
What a month; the passing of Her Majesty the Queen, a new Prime Minister, and for us, a second dose of Covid. It was a sad day when the Queen died. We were in the workshop, live-streaming the Prime Minister talking about the energy crisis in the Hous
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Window Box
Note this is a window box, not a planter, because it doesn’t have drainage holes. If you want to make yours into a planter for outside, you could make drainage holes in the underside once the form has been completed. The size of your window box will
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Clay Works Studios
Five years ago, my family and I moved to Scotland to start a new life and a new business, teaching and making with clay in southwest Scotland. The decision had been a long time in the making. Before the move, my wife Lauren and I, along with our two
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Thrown Composite Vessel
■ Clay of choice – earthenware or stoneware, preferably white if you w ant to glaze in lighter colours – 1.8kg (4lb) for each half of the body and extra for the neck. You will al so need clay to throw a pad for a batt if you don’t have a quick-fit me
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Colophon
www.claycraft.co.uk The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL Editor: Rachel Graham; claycraft.ed@kelsey.co.uk Jacqui Atkin, Kevin Millward Jacqui Atkin, Linda Bloomfield, Doug Fitch, Kevin Millward, Lisa Pritchard, Simon Shaw Ph

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