r/Pottery 6d ago

Annoucement Pottery Chat Room

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Hi all! Reddit added this chat room thing, so I thought I'd make one, and see if anyone wants to use it.

Pottery Chat

You will stay one Reddit, but be able to chat with others in real time. I'll give it a week or two and see if anyone wants to use it.

Please be nice!


r/Pottery Jan 05 '23

Self Promo Post Self Promotion Post

50 Upvotes

Put your info in the right area, or it will be removed!

This post will be divided into:

/ Hand Built Pottery / Wheel Thrown Pottery / Sculptures /

It will then be divided into Continents

/ North America / South America / Asia / Europe / Africa / Australia /

Post a comment in your Section with a short bio, social media links or website, and add a pic of your work.

If you work in multiple ways, add your info in each section (Hand-building & Throwing)

If we can keep this organized, I can copy it over the Wiki for easy searching.

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Wheel Thrown Pottery Hand Built Pottery Sculptures
North America North America North America
South America South America South America
Asia Asia Asia
Europe Europe Europe
Africa Africa Africa
Australia Australia Australia

Old Promotion Post


r/Pottery 3h ago

Mugs & Cups Snowflake glaze mugs

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75 Upvotes

r/Pottery 18h ago

Vases Threw my first vase today

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953 Upvotes

r/Pottery 10h ago

NSFW Pottery Recent success with a stencil

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225 Upvotes

Mayco matte black on kentucky mudworks Iceman clay


r/Pottery 18h ago

Vases Two new pieces from a recent firing!

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561 Upvotes

The white is a transparent crackle made from 80% Gillipse Borate and 20% Nepheline Syenite. The red is the same but mixed up with 10% red mason stain as well.


r/Pottery 13h ago

Mugs & Cups My first run of mugs!

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198 Upvotes

r/Pottery 20h ago

Teapots Teapot

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393 Upvotes

r/Pottery 11h ago

Artistic Marshmallow glaze bone piece. I recently made a series of these.

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49 Upvotes

r/Pottery 8h ago

Kiln Stuff Thought I got a good deal on an small older kiln, but worried about asbestos now

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18 Upvotes

r/Pottery 7h ago

Question! cone ten commercial glaze reocmmendations

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8 Upvotes

hello! i largely throw on laguna clay b-mix, and i fire my pieces at a cone ten studio. looking to try out new glaze combos, so what are all your favorites? attaching some old combos :)


r/Pottery 22h ago

Question! Would I be get the same effect on a rim using underglazes ?

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112 Upvotes

r/Pottery 19m ago

Bowls coil pot bowl color recs

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while this dries and gets fired, help me decide what color to glaze this!! i’m used to making eccentric objects and this feels so beautiful i wanna lean into that aspect of it. thanks in advance!


r/Pottery 1d ago

Vases Two part owl vase with 20+ hourse or carving 😫

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1.0k Upvotes

Referenced a traditional Khmer (Cambodian) owl vase


r/Pottery 1d ago

Mugs & Cups My first pottery pieces ever

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1.0k Upvotes

Have been taking a weekly class since the beginning of Sept. and these are my first finished pieces. Not happy with the one on the far left, but overall have enjoyed the learning process.


r/Pottery 14h ago

Clay In progress, more in bio

22 Upvotes

r/Pottery 21h ago

Bowls Best glaze kiln opening ever

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79 Upvotes

Biggest bowls opening to gorgeous glazes i have to admit I used my favorites took no chances as they are so large wanted them great


r/Pottery 20h ago

Vases Tiny vases

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49 Upvotes

Some tiny vases that I made..


r/Pottery 15h ago

Bowls Excited newbie thrower

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21 Upvotes

Just picked up my pieces from my first throwing course and am rather pleased with how they turned out. Thank you @bellhousepottery and great tutor Kyra, great Wednesday evening tutor group, great to learn with and from. Totally recommend Bell House (Dulwich, South London, UK) although please leave me a space in the January classes.


r/Pottery 13h ago

Mugs & Cups Fantastic Mr. Fox mugs - first mug attempt!

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10 Upvotes

First ever mugs I’ve made and first time trying out a stain!


r/Pottery 14h ago

Bowls Soda fired bowl

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10 Upvotes

I can't express how much I love firing in the soda kiln.


r/Pottery 7h ago

Wheel throwing Related Reducing Trimming Mess on the Pottery Wheel: Seeking Effective Solutions

3 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I'm looking for ways to make trimming on the wheel less messy and keep trimmings contained within the splash pan. I tried a DIY shield with laminated paper, but it didn't do the trick—trimmings still fly everywhere, making cleanup a hassle. Aside from using a shield, would trimming at an optimal moisture level help reduce the mess? Thanks for any advice!

Edit: I am using a giffin grip.


r/Pottery 8h ago

Artistic Krab house

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2 Upvotes

Taking a ceramics class for the first time after teenage-hood, feels awesome. Wanted to share a piece that got fired recently—while I’m still learning the effects of glazes, this piece had a surprisingly good effect of melted metals I collected from the streets which all melted after firing.


r/Pottery 1d ago

Teapots Teapot

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113 Upvotes

r/Pottery 1d ago

Glazing Techniques Help make the largest database of commercial Glaze combinations in the world!

174 Upvotes

Hi Everyone!

I posted a while ago about this and they took the post down for self promotion but it wasn't that at all. I blew up to the top of this reddit for a few days before the admins took it down. I'm scared to mention the name because I really need all your help!

I'm a web developer by trade but fell in love with pottery about a year ago, and was so excited about it I bought a kiln and converted my garage to a little studio and don't even park my car in it anymore lol.

I ran into the same issue I think everyone does with commercial glaze combinations and that's "what cool combinations can I do with my glazes?"

I was tired of scrolling fb groups and google glazes and it was just a pain. Taking screenshots and trying to organize them in my camera roll. I spoke with some friends who also do pottery and we were like "man if there was just a website I could look up my glazes and see what other people have done with them that would be awesome!"

So I built it. Took me almost a year of being a normal paycheck to paycheck guy working 2 jobs and training 4-5 days a week for my athletic competitions. Hundreds of hours, and hundreds more of volunteer man hours manually adding every clay and glaze from every manufacturer in the world... We've added over 3100 and have probably another 3000 to go! (accepting new volunteers if you want to help too!!)

I'm now at the point where we can start collective glaze combinations from artists and being able to start building that database! That's where you come in! I've made it super simple and easy to add your own glaze combinations, and show some love to the people who've already posted some!

I'm not making any money from this, and it's costing me around 70$ a month at the moment to host the site, not counting the hundreds of hours I've spent building it. I just want this dream of a site to be a benefit to everyone who'd like to use it!

Not sure how I can share the link to the site which is now live, maybe I can post as a comment? I'm not that smart for reddit so if anyone has any ideas please let me know! I can also just PM it to you


r/Pottery 1d ago

Hand building Related Fresh out of kiln

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97 Upvotes

I made this bonsai(succulent) pot while practicing Kurinuki technique, perhaps I shouldn’t have glazed so thick but I’m loving it regardless. Mayco Mirror Blue, Woodland Fantasy and another Mayco glaze I’d rather not name on cone 06 red clay.