A resource area that will be updated and added to over time.
LINKS
About.com: Pottery — a very useful umbrella site
Arts and Crafts/Prairie/Mission Style — these link to sites covering my favorite British and American ceramic art genre: Heads, Hands and Hearts, Roycroft, Prairie, William Morris, Gustav Stickley, American Craftsman, The Craftsman magazine (1901-1916), American Bungalow magazine
Ceramic Arts Daily; you’ll have to sign up for this with an e-mail address but it’s well worth your while. Created by the Ceramics Monthly people.
potters.org — covers every topic under the sun related to clay
BOOKS
Cardew, Michael, Pioneer Pottery — thank you for this reference and for those of the next three authors, Joan.
Casson, Michael, Pottery in Britain Today
Hesselberth, John and and Ron Roy, Mastering Cone 6 Glazes: Improving Durability, Fit and Aesthetics
Hopper, Robin, The Ceramic Spectrum, Robin Hopper Ceramics: A Lifetime of Works, Ideas and Teachings, Making Marks: Discovering the Ceramic Surface, Stayin’ Alive: Survival Tactics for the Visual Artist, Functional Pottery: Form and Aesthetic in Pots of Purpose — (listed in order of publication date, most recent first)
Leach, Bernard, A Potter’s Handbook — a seminal work and primary source.
Nelson, Glenn C., Ceramics: a Potter’s Handbook — this was my college text. I find it every bit as useful today.
Rhodes, Daniel, Clays and Glazes for the Potter — thank you for the tip, Eric.
Rhodes, Daniel, Kilns: Design, Construction and Operation — thank you, Eric!
MAGAZINES
VIDEOS (See section under categories.)
PODCASTS
TBA
ORGANIZATIONS
SUPPLIES (in my locale)
The Green Barn, Surrey, B.C.
Opus Framing and Art Supply, throughout the Lower Mainland
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I came across your site while doing an online search to identify a pot that has come into my possession. The words “Cook Clayworks” are imprinted in the clay on the bottom in small block letters and there are some hand-written marks “signed” in the clay that are not quite legible, but one of these looks like the initials JS; the ohter looks like a short signature but I can’t read it. The incriptions brought me to your sight via Google. The pot looks like a ceramic casserole (glazed), but inside it has a vented tube that protrudes up into the pot. It has a lid as well. I would have thought it was a vertical chicken roaster, except that the lid seems too shallow to hold an upright chicken.The pot is about 8 1/2″ in diameterand about 4″ deep to the rim, with the lid adding another 2″ to 2 1/2″ at the highest point. It is glazed in beige with some brown and orangeish spattering and a circle (possibly a stylized tree) design in brown around the pot and around the lid. Any insight as to what this might be?Thanks!
Hi, Lynda, and thank you for writing. I have read through your description but have not been able to figure out what type of vessel you have…so far. Intriguing. Would you be willing to send me a photo of the inside? You can send it to me at jan@janestreetclayworks.com. I would appreciate it… — Jan