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title: "Archive"
url: https://springpottery.com/archive
description: "The full index of essays at Spring Pottery, grouped under clay and body, at the wheel, glaze and fire, and pottery at home."
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# Archive

Index

All 9 essays on the site, grouped by subject and listed with the length of each.

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## Clay and Body

- [What Makes a Clay Body Stoneware](https://springpottery.com/what-makes-a-clay-body-stoneware)Clay and Body · About 4 minutesA clay body is a recipe, not a natural product dug out of the ground ready to use. Understanding the ingredients explains most of what a finished pot does.
- [The Marks on the Bottom of a Pot](https://springpottery.com/the-marks-on-the-bottom-of-a-pot)Clay and Body · About 4 minutesThe underside of a pot records more about how it was made than any other surface. Most of what is there is evidence rather than decoration.

## At the Wheel

- [Throwing a Bowl: The Sequence of Moves](https://springpottery.com/throwing-a-bowl-the-sequence-of-moves)At the Wheel · About 4 minutesThrowing looks like sculpture and is closer to a sequence of fixed operations. Each step exists because the step after it will not work otherwise.
- [Setting Up a Small Home Studio](https://springpottery.com/setting-up-a-small-home-studio)At the Wheel · About 4 minutesA working pottery corner needs less space than most people assume and more attention to dust, water and floor loading than they expect.

## Glaze and Fire

- [Glaze Colour in Plain Language](https://springpottery.com/glaze-colour-in-plain-language)Glaze and Fire · About 4 minutesGlaze colour comes from a handful of metal oxides behaving differently in different melts. The same oxide can produce green, brown, red or black without changing.
- [Why a Kiln Firing Takes Two Days](https://springpottery.com/why-a-kiln-firing-takes-two-days)Glaze and Fire · About 4 minutesNothing in a kiln is in a hurry. Every stage of the schedule exists to let a specific physical or chemical change finish before the next one begins.

## Pottery at Home

- [Stoneware and the Everyday Table](https://springpottery.com/stoneware-and-the-everyday-table)Pottery at Home · About 5 minutesA stoneware bowl and a factory dinner plate are both fired clay, and they behave almost nothing alike once they are in daily use. The difference begins in the kiln.
- [Pottery That Survives the Oven](https://springpottery.com/pottery-that-survives-the-oven)Pottery at Home · About 4 minutesMost handmade stoneware can be baked in. The pieces that fail almost always fail for one reason, and it is a reason worth understanding before the dish goes in.
- [Caring for Handmade Pottery at Home](https://springpottery.com/caring-for-handmade-pottery-at-home)Pottery at Home · About 4 minutesHandmade stoneware needs less care than its owners usually assume, and the care it does need is different from what people expect.