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One gardener shared a helpful video of a traditional olla being used to water a tomato plant.
Looking at Felicity Aylieff’s monumental hand-thrown blue and white porcelain towers reaching up to five metres into the ...
Inspired by the traditional beauty of early American pottery, Emily Rarity is creating pieces that bring a sense of warmth ...
Maa Durga is everywhere including cyberspace connecting giving us hope and strength writes SONAL SRIVASTAVAOm durgaya namah prompts a priest at a Durga Puja pandal in Toronto urging devotees to chant ...
Clay pots preserved everything from grains ... a magnetometry survey to find buried pottery. (Clay contains iron oxides that can become magnetized.) At the original Guadalupe Pottery site he ...
Maya blue is a highly unusual pigment because it is a mix of organic indigo and an inorganic clay mineral called palygorskite. The rich blue color does not fade over time; it has maintained its ...
I recently stumbled upon videos that showcase the egg’s production with traditional ingredients like ash, quicklime, clay, and rice ... lye or sodium hydroxide, zinc oxide, salt, and water.
Soda firing involves introducing sodium oxide into a hot kiln ... Jenkins trims a dry pot by using wet clay to secure the pot and slowly revolves the pottery wheel. Trimming a pot is essential ...
Long and low, terracotta, and somewhat fishy. A fish-shaped terracotta clay cooking pot. I had to have it. It was marked R120 but I bargained them down and got it for R100. When I got home I ...
Earthenware: You’ll most likely recognize this as the type of clay material used in common reddish brown flower pots. Unlike other ... glazes can contain metal oxides or other minerals that ...