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Food Safe Clay – What Clay to Use for Food and Drink

If you want to make pottery that you can eat off or drink from, you need to use food safe clay. The problem is that …

Best Clay for Handbuilding – Tips on Choosing Pottery Clay

If you are making pottery without a wheel, you may be wondering about the best clay for handbuilding. Pottery clay for handbuilding needs to have …

I’m Lesley, the creator of The Pottery Wheel. Like many people, I used the potter’s wheel at school. But then I began to focus on clay sculpture and I left the wheel behind. However, more recently, I found myself being drawn back to pottery and the potter's wheel. And so, I have tried to pick up where I left off all those years ago at school. This blog is a chronicle of what I have learned as I got back into the potter's saddle!

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