--- title: Pottery description: Pottery is the process of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials. Learners will understand hand-building techniques, wheel throwing, glazing, and firing processes to create durable, functional, and decorative ceramic pieces. category: trades-crafts subcategory: specialty-crafts difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/pottery --- # Pottery Pottery is the process of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials. Learners will understand hand-building techniques, wheel throwing, glazing, and firing processes to create durable, functional, and decorative ceramic pieces. ## Available Resources 3 Books • 5 Websites ## Websites ### 1. The Potter's Cast Paul Blais interviews working potters across more than 1,200 episodes, covering studio setup, pricing, wholesale, teaching, and marketing. Listeners come away understanding how ceramic artists actually sustain a career, not how to throw pots. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://thepotterscast.com/ **Tags:** ceramics, podcast, studio practice, pottery business, interviews ### 2. r/Pottery Wiki The subreddit's community-maintained index of answers to recurring beginner questions, with links to technique explanations, equipment discussion, and studio advice. Useful for orienting yourself before asking, and for finding what experienced potters repeatedly recommend. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.reddit.com/r/Pottery/wiki/index **Tags:** ceramics, community, faq, beginner guide, reddit ### 3. Digitalfire Tony Hansen's free reference site on ceramic chemistry, glaze recipes, clay bodies, and materials, covering the physics and chemistry behind common firing, glaze-fit, and formulation problems for potters and ceramic technicians. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://digitalfire.com/ **Tags:** ceramics, glaze-chemistry, materials-science, reference-database ### 4. ceramicartsnetwork.org Ceramic Arts Network is a comprehensive online resource for potters, featuring technique-focused articles, step-by-step tutorials, and project ideas on wheel throwing, hand-building, glazing, and firing. It also offers videos, artist features, and industry news to inspire and guide studio practice. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://ceramicartsnetwork.org **Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts ### 5. thepotterywheel.com The Pottery Wheel is a pottery-focused resource offering practical wheel-throwing tutorials, techniques, and project ideas with tips for both beginners and experienced potters. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://thepotterywheel.com **Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts ## Podcasts ### 1. Tales of a Red Clay Rambler **Author:** Ben Carter A weekly interview podcast in which potter Ben Carter talks with ceramic artists, sculptors, and designers worldwide about their studio practice, materials, techniques, and careers. Listeners gain insight into how working ceramicists develop forms, glazes, and a sustainable creative business. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://talesofaredclayrambler.libsyn.com **Tags:** pottery, ceramics, ceramic-artists, studio-practice ## Books ### 1. The Potter’s Bible **Author:** Marylin Scott A wire-bound illustrated reference covering clay bodies, pinching, coiling, slabbing, press-moulding, throwing, trimming, and surface techniques such as sgraffito and burnishing. Photographic step sequences let you follow an unfamiliar forming or decorating method at the wheel. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0785821430?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts ### 2. Complete Pottery Techniques **Author:** DK A 256-page illustrated manual running from clay preparation and throwing through firing, glazing, and sgraffito decoration, with project workshops contributed by professional makers. Step-by-step photographs show hand position, so you can copy technique rather than infer it. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1465484752?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts ### 3. Handbuilt Pottery Techniques Revealed **Author:** Jacqui Atkin Coil, slab, mould, and pinch construction taught through cutaway photography that shows the interior of a form mid-build. You see wall thickness and joins that ordinary process photos hide, making handbuilt bowls, vases, and tiles easier to replicate. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0764126660?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, creative-arts --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/pottery