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POTTERY LINKS: History of Pottery - History of Pottery
Pottery Wheels - Stefan's Florilegium info on pottery wheels.
American Ceramics Society - The American Ceramic Society an international association dedicated to the advancement and promotion of ceramics.
CAS Collectors - The official site of CAS Collectors. This is a collector's group for all those with an interest in the work of the Ceramic Arts Studio of Madison Wisconsin. The group publishes a quarterly newsletter and hosts an annual convention each August in conjunction with the Wisconsin Pottery Association Show & Sale.

Buy and Sell Roseville Pottery - Auction alternative to eBay for exclusively for buying and selling art pottery.
Roseville Pottery Reproductions - Information on identifying Roseville Pottery reproductions
The Los Angeles Pottery Show - The Los Angeles Pottery Show.
cbpots.com - Todd Piker runs the Cornwall Bridge Pottery in Cornwall Connecticut master potter.
Collectors Homepage Bauer Pottery - Bauer Pottery Company of Los Angeles manufactures Bauer 2000 pottery styled after Bauer vintage American pottery Russel Wright's American Modern line of dinnerware and gardenware.
Identification Brush McCoy Pottery - The Brush Pottery Company was founded in Zanesville Ohio in 1906 by a man named George Brush and its early history is closely tied to a better-known pottery McCoy.
Collecting Frankoma Pottery - People who use their pottery find Frankoma to be rugged and durable. The Frankoma Family Collectors Association Web site reports getting many queries about lead being an issue when using this pottery for food eating.
Pottery Northwest The Northwest's premier art studio - Pottery Northwest is a Seattle-based non-profit organization that develops and promotes excellence in the ceramic arts.

POTTERY FACTOID:

Decorating and glazing additives can be worked into the clay body prior to forming, to produce desired effects in the fired wares. Coarse additives such as sand and grog (fired clay which has been finely ground) are sometimes used to give the final product a required texture. Contrasting coloured clays and grogs are sometimes used to produce patterns in the finished wares. Colourants, usually metal oxides and carbonates, are added singly or in combination to achieve a desired colour. Combustible particles can be mixed with the body or pressed into the surface.

Jiggering and jolleying are carried out on the potter's wheel and allow the time taken to bring wares to a standardized form to be reduced. Jiggering is a procedure where a shaped tool is put into contact with the plastic clay of a piece under construction, the piece itself being set on a rotating plaster mould on the wheel at various speeds.

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