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Welcome
As I write this, on the last Bank Holiday in what seems to have been an inordinately long run of them, a cold wind is whistling around my windows. We’ve just enjoyed a run of hot, sunny weather, so this is a bit of a shock. The only up-side is that I
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Meet The Team...
Jacqui Atkin P34 Planter Simon Shaw P8 Teapot Doug Fitch P72 Spring Fling Linda Bloomfield P22 Blue glazes Lisa Pritchard P46 New chairs Chris Taylor P62 New kiln ■
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ClayCraft Magazine www.claycraft.co.uk Kelsey Media The Granary, Downs Court, Yalding Hill, Yalding, Kent ME18 6AL Editor: Rachel Graham; claycraft.ed@kelsey.co.uk Consultant editors: Jacqui Atkin, Kevin Millward Contributors: Jacqui Atkin, Linda Blo
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Teapot Part 2 – Turning And Assembling The Parts
You will need: ■ Turning tools of choice ■ Sponge ■ Tool for making holes – afine drill bit is ideal 1 With a damp finger, moisten the rim of the lid and the position on the wheel where it will sit. 2 Centre the lid using the concentric lines on t
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Readers’ Makes
Inspired by AJ’s Otter lamp during the 2022 season of The Great Pottery Throw Down, I joined a Haremaking workshop and made this ‘Edison’ the Hare lamp… it was my first pottery project. I’ve subsequently joined Poynton Pottery and LOVE my Monday even
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Linda Bloomfield Glazing
Linda Bloomfield is a scientist turned potter. More glaze recipes can be found in her books, Special Effect Glazes (Herbert Press 2020), Colour in Glazes (Herbert Press 2019) and The Handbook of Glaze Recipes (Bloomsbury 2014) During the Ming Dynasty
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Hree Interlocking Planters
It’s that time of year again when we start to plant up our containers for summer colour, so we thought we would show you how to make something a little different this year – aplanter in three parts for a really eyecatching show ■ Paper, pencil, ruler
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Pinched Tapir
You will need: ■ Clay – earthenware or stoneware, colour of choice ■ General tools and ribs ■ Decorating material of choice – coloured slip, underglaze or glaze Before you begin: You will find it helpful to have an image of a tapir for reference a
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The Accidental Studio
We are on a US-based Facebook group for pottery studio owners and operators. Naturally, the vast majority of the membership is from the US, but there are a few of us in the UK as well. It’s quite an eye-opener to read about the differences between th
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Mishima Plate
Mishima is a technique of inlaying colour into a drawn or impressed design on clay. There are two ways of working – one at the green stage using slip as the inlay, the other after bisque-firing, using underglaze. We demonstrate both approaches here,
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Clay Works Studios
I’m not sure how typical my experience was, but growing up half-Polish, half-British during the ‘70s and ‘80s, I had very little personal experience of Polish culture. The political landscape, the cost and some interesting family dynamics meant we d
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Doug's Diary
May is my favourite month, chasing away the darkness, and with it, the last traces of my perennial winter depression, hurrah! The countryside is in full flower. Campion and bluebells line the lanes, under a canopy of umbelliferous cow parsley. The ha
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A Simple Relief Line Tile Mould From A Repeat Design
You will need: ■ Acard template, 4cm wider than your design square ■ Clay – smooth variety but otherwise, any type ■ Rolling pin, roller guides (5mm), plastic sheet ■ Tools (including a pin) and ribs 1 Prepare a block of clay large enough to accom
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Courses
Courses: Handbuilding & throwing day class drop-in. Night and weekend classes. 1-1 tuition & Raku classes. Suitable for all levels. Open access coming. Dates: see website Location; Govan, Glasgow stefbaxterpottery.com Courses: All levels from beginn

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