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I moved out of Leederville over a year ago and I was quite sad to no longer interact with the Willy Wag Tail I'd tamed while she wa...

Wheel cut glass bowl. Persian (Syria? Iran?), 10th Century. Sotheby's - Arts of the Islamic World. 5/10/2011 lot 203 I thought...

I got impatient while waiting for the previous attempt at hydro-abrasion to be fired. So I started on the next project. The aim of this one ...

Recently I encountered a fellow potter at Claymake. She had the most lovely relief patterns on a cup. When I inquired how she'd achieve...

13-14th century, Syria. The Met Museum. Accession 56.185.8 I thought this design would translate nicely. The bisque was undergla...

Front Back Not everything needs to be medieval. I thought these designs would provide a nice balance between thin and thick...

I made some glaze pallets so I could see how well the various colours worked on stoneware and the difference between the local buff clay and...

I found a lovely cup on a viking related blog ( Bjornthisway ) and thought it was the perfect thing to aim for to continue developing ...

I don’t really care how the overglaze on this one turns out. I’m already very happy with how this design has turned out. I copied th...

Hats of MS 6613 - a safavid manuscript with many lovely illuminated pages These images were gleaned off multiple pages and there are a few...

I made two lids for my first jar. As I haven't done this before I followed vague memories of Youtube videos from the night before an...

I’ve been watching a number of ‘how to’ videos on Youtube recently. I started tonight’s clay session with the express aim of making some...

I've been working on cups for a couple of months now but many of my favourite references are bowls or dishes. Before trying to make som...

The design: This is the black under-glaze design. I used a single sized paint brush and a single coat for all of the items except the ...

This is my favourite piece of bisque from the class I took in November. I’ve been hoarding it because I had no idea what I wanted to deco...

I’ve been posting this project at some of its stages already. It has now been fired so I thought it was about time I did a write up. Fir...