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Welcome to Pottery Making Info

Find pottery tips and techniques, discover pottery resources, and learn about making pottery.

What is Pottery?

Pottery is the process, place, or product of making vessels or other items from clay that is fired to high temperatures to create functional objects.

For example: “Pottery is an interesting activity. I went to a local pottery and saw a potter working with clay. He made beautiful pottery.

Pottery Making Resources

Clay Tools Guide

Learn about different kinds of tools that are used to form, glaze and fire pottery.

clay tools for making pottery

Pottery Supplies Guide

Ceramic supplies such as clay, glaze, raw materials, and chemicals are explained.

complete guide to pottery supplies

Directory

Organized links to a number of great pottery sites.

Dictionary

Common pottery terms and what they mean.

Articles

Useful or interesting information about making pots.

Popular Content

How to Throw Pottery

Complete visual guide for throwing pottery on the pottery wheel.

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23 Pottery Tips

Tips and techniques from the pottery blogs around the world.

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18 More Pottery Tips

More pottery tips and techniques for making pottery.

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Vevor Pottery Wheel Review

A review of a cheap pottery wheel for sale on Amazon.

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Magic Water Recipes

Recipes and information about making magic water for pottery.

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Slip Trailing for Beginners

A beginner’s guide to slip trailing to decorate pottery.

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Guide to Wedging Clay

Comparing three ways to wedge clay to get ready to make pottery.

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How to Recycle Clay

An easy way to reclaim and reuse scrap clay.

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13 Tips to Decorate Pottery

Tips and techniques for adding unique surfaces to your pots.

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Learn to Make Pottery

pottery making introduction: clay and tools, forming, glazing and firing pottery
learn the pottery making process

The main purpose of this site is to help you learn about making pottery and ceramic art. Everything from setting up your clay space, pottery tools and forming pots to applying glaze, firing and finishing your work. If you have resources or information about pottery techniques or any part of the pottery making process I would love to take a look. Send it my way.

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Pottery Blogs

Check The Pottery Making Blog to see the latest updates and stay up to date on pottery blogs from around the world.

The Clay Blog Review highlights the best pottery blogs every month. You can also find a huge list of pottery blogs in the Pottery Directory or check out the best blogs of the entire year! The monthly clay blog review is currently on break. Perhaps it will be revived in the future.

You can find some great resources here at Pottery Making Info including a pottery dictionary, original articles and even pottery search engines. You can also check out some of the top pottery sites on the web.

Pottery Making on Social Media

You can find Pottery Making Info on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. These are great places to find other fans of making pottery.

Thanks for visiting! If you have any questions, contributions, or just want to talk about pottery I would love to hear from you.

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