Did you know that Chinese ceramics were once considered high-tech? For several ages, China was the only civilization that knew how to make porcelain. Ceramics are generally made based on three basic ...

Pottery is a complicated process involving mixing and fine-tuning clay, creating and refining vessels or sculptures, and then developing and applying glazes before firing. Though glazing is one of the ...

Ceramics artist Reinhardt debuts with a helpful primer on ceramic surface design techniques. These include additive and subtractive relief (adding clay shapes to or carving out clay from the surface ...

IT has been known for some months that Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R. S., and Prof. T. Oliver, had been commissioned by the Home Secretary to investigate the use of lead compounds in the production of ...

In a village in North China's Hebei province, the ancient craft of pottery is bringing new opportunities to the local ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

The vibrant encrusted surfaces of the artist Brian Rochefort’s ceramic vessels evoke Technicolor eruptions. By Janelle Zara The surfaces of the sculptor Brian Rochefort’s craterlike ceramic masses ...

HIRONO, Iwate Prefecture--Sea urchin are a culinary delicacy, but because their shells are often seen as too difficult or costly to recycle, they end up getting tossed out in bulk. But a local potter ...