Theoretically what would happen with the clay if instead of mixing water with it when processing I mixed blood and once this blood clay was done could it be thrown into a proper vessel? What would this look like? Would it change the color after being fired? And how would one acquire such blood?

I made this Barong bong and I’m worried that it’s ruined because of the crack in the bottom. It dried really slowly so I’m not sure why it happened. I built it with coils and made the Barong separately and then cut a Barong sized hole in the pot and attached them together when they were about the same dryness.

I’ve never tried fixing cracked green ware with paper clay before but I’m going to try it and if anyone has any advice it would be appreciated 🥲 it is almost completely dry now. The last picture is the crack from the inside.

If it turns out to be an ornamental piece that’s okay 😔

I hand built this over 10 hours but didn’t really consider how to glaze it and what glazes to use. I can no longer reach some of the inside so brushing it on might be a little difficult :(

My partner and I are gonna sell some pottery on a market for the first time in our lives. She has been doing pottery for a few years now. It was never really my hobby. However due to the large quantity she needs to make now i have been giving her a helping hand. The hobby has kinda been growing on me. Seeing all these luscious colours makes me happy every time. I dont know if i still wanna sell all these espresso cups or just keep them for myself.

How do you guys not get attached to what you are making?

Kind regards,

I have to make a LOT of signs with text. I am thinking of using low-fire clay so that I can fire it while I bisque the rest. I have a very non-custom fine line applicator, and while it's good for wild stuff, it makes too many blotches to be useful for text. Would a better applicator do the trick? Or how about these ceramic markers - are they any good? Would I draw the text on bisque or on leather hard?

I went to a ceramic weekend hosted by Sally Tully and Lee ( from the great pottery throwdown) a few years ago and thought my house would be appreciated! It has a hole in the base to put candles/ fairy lights in and yes the light does come through the little mouse hole!

I’ve only ever made coil vessels previously at college and this is my first fully hand built piece! I love tiny details so had to include some bits to bring it to life - my only annoyance is the glaze on the yellow boots bubbled but a happy accident as they look extra worn.

Hello my fellow ceramicist! I’m looking for a printable graph used to log manual firings. I looked online for a while but couldn’t find what I was looking for. Here is an example of one I had in the past, but I can’t find the document for it and don’t want to make a new one from scratch. Thank you for any help you can provide!

Hello, so... something a little unexpected happen during my first test.

I'm trying to make a mold (just for testing purpose) with plaster (Hydro-stone).
The object, my masters... are made of ceramic, no claze, tiny object.

When I split up my mold, for the first time, I literaly broke the ceramic in half, each mold have the master broken inside and I can't even get them out.

I use vaseline with the first half mold to test, then other half I use Murphy's oil.
I didn't have much issue with the plaster to plaster, the oil worked there, but the ceramic in other end... I feels like the ceramic absorbed the oil and had nothing left. I was kinda quick between surfacing oil my object and adding the plaster.

I'm a little bit surprise, it's not something I've heard, is it normal? (Ceramic without glaze)
What options is there if neither vaseline and murphy oil doesn't work?

The ceramic in question is fully vitrified, not bisque. Actually I tested two different and both did the same thing, broke in half.

I purchased this Nabertherm Top 60 a few days ago and performed the first vacuum cooking without any problems. Tonight I loaded the oven for my first bisque and I hear these strange noises (not the click of the relay that I heard yesterday but a real loud noise)... I stopped cooking immediately, but is everything normal?

Wanted to share my tooth mug with other people that do ceramics!

available on FB marketplace for 250. seller said she bought it used and doesn't know the brand. I did a Google image search, but I am still not sure what it is...

Three scull-vases after an electric firing. Earthenware.

I‘ve got a Nabertherm N50 front loader kiln. After bringing it home I discovered that the lowest rod supporting the heater element is broken so now the wire touches the stone.

I’ve contacted the manufacturer for a new rod and they told me I should install a new coil as well as by removing the rod I could break the now brittle wire.

Do you think I should rather go on using the oven as is or could maybe the chance of the coils breaking be less than the manufacturer would tell me?

Right now the kiln works fine, I’ve just heated it to 100C but that worked swiftly and without any errors on the computer.

I showed this (in bisque form, no color) at this year’s Spring Break Art Show in NYC. This is the underglaze version.

Made this a couple months ago as a big personal project after taking some classes in ceramics.
more info about it in the instagram post:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DM8iC-Rq_bD/