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ClayCraft

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Clay Craft
ClayCraft Magazine www.claycraft.co.uk Kelsey Media The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL EDITORIAL Editor: Rachel Graham; claycraft.ed@kelsey.co.uk Consultant editors: Jacqui Atkin, Kevin Millward Contributors: Jacqui Atk
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Welcome
It’s a lovely time of year. The sun has some real heat in it, the hedgerows are full of f lowers and I’ve heard my first cuckoo. Last year I was lucky enough to have a turtle dove in the garden and looking back at the photos, I first saw it on the 1s
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Hunting Potters
Over a period of 26 years, from 1991 to 2017, we travel across India and Pakistan in search of traditional potters, ancient cities, and archaeological and architectural marvels in the company of Jane Gibson, physiotherapist and potter, and her husban
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Harrow Open Studios 2022
If you have a news story, product launch or details of some other topical item you’d like our readers to know about, email claycraft.ed@kelsey.co.uk Now in its 14th year, this free annual event is Harrow Open Studios’ largest exhibition to date, taki
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Bctf Award Winners
The winners of the 2022 British Craft Trade Fair awards were announced on 11 April in an emotional ceremony that saw the British craft community raise a glass together for the first time since 2019. Three ceramicists were among the winners: The Giftw
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New Exhibition
A new special exhibition is coming to York Art Gallery, home of the Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA) for Summer 2022. Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics & Contemporary Art, curated and conceived by Dr Jareh Das in partnership with Two Temple Place,
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Thrown Coffee Mug And Filter
■ Tools for throwing – water bowl, sponge (including one on a stick), cutting wire, ribs ■ Clay of choice – earthenware or stoneware – 341g (12oz) for mug – 454g (1lb) for the filter, and a little extra for the handle ■ Glaze of choice to fit clay ty
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Linda Bloomfield Glaze Basics: Dipping Or Brush-on Glazes?
Linda Bloomfield is a scientist turned potter. More glaze recipes can be found in her books, Advanced Pottery (2011), Colour in Glazes (A&C Black 2012), The Handbook of Glaze Recipes (Bloomsbury 2014) and Science for Potters (The American Ceramic Soc
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Making A Hump And Press Mould
■ Clay to make the model – smooth un-grogged ■ Water bowl, sponge ■ Wide batt – 4cm wider than the chosen width of your bowl ■ Ribs/palettes – fl exi bl e ■ Mould maker’s size (soft soap), plus brush to apply ■ Extra clay to make cottles OR old l
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Wide-rimmed Bowl
This project used the hump mould made on page 24 and is a simple way of making a decorative dish ■ A hump mould like the one made on page 24 ■ A small bowl mould ■ Clay of choice – earthenware or stoneware ■ Rolling pin, plastic sheet, 5mm thick roll
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Small Espresso Cup
Height 6.5 cm (2 ½") Diameter at rim 7cm (2 ¾") ■ 284g (10oz) white firing stoneware clay. Cup: 171g (6oz), foot and handle: 114g (4oz) ■ Small kidney/rib ■ Pin ■ Modelling tools ■ Surform/rasp blade ■ Glazes of choice to fit clay type If espresso is
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Discus Vase
■ Clay of choice – earthenware or stoneware, any colour ■ Circular plaster hump mould ■ Rolling pin, 5mm thick roller guides, 2x plastic sheets ■ Underglaze or slip – colour of choice ■ Fan brush for application of above ■ Fine tipped sgraffito tool
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Doug’s DIARY
April has been a month of bits and bobs, with very little clay finding its way onto the wheel head. I’m not unduly concerned about that, although we do have pressing deadlines and no stock whatsoever, but, after a few weeks of anything but making pot
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Querda Seca Wax Resist Technique
■ Liquid wax emulsion 50g ■ Standard borax frit 3g ■ Red iron oxide 5g ■ Black iron oxide 5g Wet the oxides thoroughly in a few drops of water then mix them into the wax. Pass the mixture through an 80-mesh sieve to remove any lumps – transfer th
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A New Dawn For Cer Amics
When does an arts show become mainstream, and raise the profile of a medium that the general public can relate to? Is there a time when you change from purely being a maker to a collector of other people’s work? The influence of television programmes
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Courses
Do you run a course that you’d like to see here? Email claycraft.ed@kelsey.co.uk for free inclusion in our listing
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Confessions Of A Novice
I’ve been meaning to make these salt pigs ever since they appeared in ClayCraft issue 42. They somehow look so… professional! I also have a very creative aunt who enjoys carving spoons from lovely little pieces of wood. She’d promised me a spoon and

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