Once a pottery piece is off the wheel and dry, it often goes back on another kind of turntable, a banding wheel, so it can be painted, glazed, or otherwise embellished. The rotating platform gives you ...

Over the past few years glaze, ink and frit technology in the ceramic tile industry have experienced a rebirth. Now, the results are finally becoming mainstream. At Cersaie 2017, many Tile of Spain ...

DALLAS TWP. — You see the heat as flames flare out the two holes on the top of the kiln, burning at nearly 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. You feel the heat, when the gas jets shut off and the kiln is ...

The colorful glaze on that ceramic mug of yours may look nice, but there's a chance that it could contain toxic substances. US scientists have thus created a safer type of glaze, that incorporates ...

Many articles are published on a daily basis illustrating the use of glazes, but the technology employed in their application and composition is quite complex and diverse. Many variations are possible ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- After last fall's first Syracuse China giveaway, local pottery and ceramic makers found themselves mobbed with calls. Suddenly hundreds of people wanted to glaze their Syracuse China ...

SInae Kim has found a way to glaze ceramics using human urine. Ceramics is an ancient industry going back thousands of years. Humans have been glazing their ceramics since as far back as the 8th ...

The Owen family can trace their pottery roots back six generations, so far back that their family’s artwork now rest in the The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. Ben Owen III has been making pottery since ...

We bought a 10-piece dining-room set at auction several years ago. There's a medallion in the drawer of the buffet that reads, "Special design made for James McCreery & Company, New York, N.Y." I'd ...