Once a pottery piece is off the wheel and dry, it often goes back on another kind of turntable, a banding wheel, so it can be painted, glazed, or otherwise embellished. The rotating platform gives you ...

The colorful glaze on that ceramic mug of yours may look nice, but there's a chance that it could contain toxic substances. US scientists have thus created a safer type of glaze, that incorporates ...

Tea contains flavonoids such as catechins, which have numerous health benefits. Now, researchers reveal that the glazing on ceramic tea sets plays a crucial role in retaining the beneficial components ...

The Owen family can trace their pottery roots back six generations, so far back that their family’s artwork now rest in the The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. Ben Owen III has been making pottery since ...

Potter Sue Ebbeson has been hooked on slinging mud since her first go more than 25 years ago on an old abandoned potter's wheel that was hanging around the school in upstate New York where husband ...

SInae Kim has found a way to glaze ceramics using human urine. Ceramics is an ancient industry going back thousands of years. Humans have been glazing their ceramics since as far back as the 8th ...

Introduced as a medicinal drink around 2700 B.C., tea has grown to be the one of the most popular beverages worldwide. One of the key reasons for its popularity is its rich content of flavonoids and ...