eco-friendly Archives - Pottery Tips by The Pottery Wheel

Where Is Clay Found? – How to Get Your Hands on Clay Soil

Clay is dug up from the ground and processed so it can be used to make pottery. Often it is manufacturers who mine the clay …

Is Pottery Clay Eco-Friendly? – or is it Costing the Earth?

For many years, humans have been making jewelry, vases, plates, jugs, and drinking vessels out of clay. And still today, given the vast variety of …

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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