Potters who burnish are often asked, ‘what glaze is that?’ by admirers of their objects. Naturally everyone assumes that all pottery is glazed, and that the glossy surface of a burnished pot seems like a glaze. A burnished pot has a glow from within and a warmth that glazed pots don’t have. Burnishing is simply polishing a pot by rubbing the surface with a smooth object. There are two techniques to burnish a pot: 1- rubbing the clay with a polished stone or other smooth objec

When you put a ball of clay in your hands, you just want to start making something, it’s so natural it’s uncanny. This term refers to the one of several techniques of building pots using only the hands and simple tools rather than the potter’s wheel and while equipment is used to make a lot of the pottery in the world, using just your hands or a simple paddle and rolling pin can produce awesome results. "Handbuilding" is working with clay by hand using only simple tools, not

Majolica in common contemporary parlance is a white, opaque, glossy glaze that is very viscous to the point that it doesn’t move during firing. This allows line quality applied to the raw glaze to be maintained faithfully through the firing process. Majolica is Italian tin-glazed pottery dating from the Renaissance period. It is decorated in colours on a white background, sometimes depicting historical and mythical scenes, these works are known as istoriato wares ("painted wi