Ceramics and Pottery

Yes pottery barn is a very good bran with many happy customers.

From personal experience, I would definitely say the inexpensive line put out by Corelle. I bought service for 8 sixteen years ago, and I still have them all! Boy, am I tired of that pattern.

Between Bisque, Porcelain and Stoneware dishes, Stoneware is the most durable and the reason is because it is fired at a high temperature. Corelle dishes are fine, but be careful when they do break because they break into very tiny splinters that are hard to see until someone walks on them barefooted.

Basic dish soap and water works quite well. If the pot is unglazed (that is the standard brown flower pots) scrub with a scrub brush to remove the residue and let air dry. If you are concerned about bacteria, you can place a dry pot in the oven at 200 degrees to sterilize them. Leave about 20 minutes. DO NOT sterilize a glazed pot with this method. Use the standard bleach rinse to sterilize them.

Pinch, slab and coil are the beginning techniques for working with clay.

The first most basic method of making something out of clay is simply to 'pinch it' into the desired form. For example if you wanted to make a bowl you would start with a ball of clay and using many slight presses of the thumb into one side create an indentation. By rotating the ball while pressing one can make an evenly thick, finely crafted bowl.

The next method is to use 'snakes' of clay (rolled out from balls - remember kindergarden?) to coil around with each new section being mashed/ joned to the one before. With this method one can create a bowls, cups, jugs and even vessels large enough to get into. The sides can be left with the separate coils still visible or with them not only joined but smoothed out to form an even surface.

Slab is the last of these basic methods. The clay is rolled out (usually between two equally thick boards) to forma slab which is then cut and pieced together wjith other slabs to create a form. A box can be made this way as well as plates, platters or bowls if the slab is draped into or over a form to dry.

This depends on he melting temperature of the wire that you are using. It also depends on the firing temperature of the clay. If the melting temperature of the wire is higher than the firing temperature of the clay, then wire can be added to a clay piece.

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they made pottery to store food and beverages

Brittle materials, especially ceramics, are prone to fracture by sudden changes in temperature. A sudden change can cause rapid and unequal expansion or contraction that set up tensile stresses in the material causing it to break. For example, putting a drinking glass or glass bottle in boiling water will often result in it breaking.

Ash pottery because it was accidently made because ashes on the roof of the stove fell on it and melted onto the pot.

A general term for unfired clay products is "greenware." The exact designation of unfired clay, however, depends on the stage of dryness. In order by increasing dryness, clay can become soft leatherhard, firm leatherhard, velvet and bone dry.

Unfired clay remains porous, so it can't be used to hold any liquid and if it is immersed in water, it will dissolve. So it must be fired. Native Americans and many potters use wood fired kilns which take several days to reach the necessary temperatures and to cool down after firing. Most professional potters use gas or eliectric fired kilns which reach the very high temperatures needed to mature clay and glazes.

The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked., The place where earthen vessels are made.

Amazon offers a variety of pottery mugs. High quality mugs with unique designs can be purchased for around $20 per mug. Simple coffee mugs can be found as low as $5 per mug. You can also find unique, US made mugs online at GiftedPottery.

The motto of Stoke-on-Trent is 'Vis Unita Fortior'.

Most of the time, it's still called Clay. After it dries, it is/they are clay bricks.

Clay, usually, cost about a dollar, $1.00, an ounce... When it's Palmer's... if u go to Wally World, Wal-Mart, it cost about two to five dollars.

See: http://www.crest.org/discussiongroups/resources/stoves/Boyt/ceramics/ceramics1.html You could spend a lifetime studying clay and its uses. Clay is basically the stuff in dirt that is non-organic, and not sand and rocks. It is always associated with water, but dried-up lakes and streams are the best sources. Clays used by Southwestern Anasazi is a mystery. A thousand years ago they made pottery just millimeters thick that survives today. Nobody (the legend goes) knows the source of this white clay. But some clay as polymer and modlying clay is made out of chemical h2o and rubber.

hey! I'm doing my project on the exact same thing! 1st of all, find a great pic on the internet: it's ur tool! it might help to get some from a bunch of different angles! pick out some shapes you recognize and work from there. good luck!!!

yes. i do it all the time

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If this wine glass is made from common glass will crack.

Yes, they made weapons and stone buildings, thus they were very important.

you get clay and mold it in to a astronauts starting almost like a snow man just smaller so roll up little balls of clay and stick together with toothpicks and glue