Useful Ceramic Links

Ceramic Information & Resources

Pottery Education Facilities

Clay Supplies & Equipment

AFTOSA - Wholesale pottery and craft supplies including accessories such as cane teapot handles, lotion dispenser pumps, oil lamp parts, display stands, and many other items. Free catalog available. Great wax resist, too!

AMACO - American Art Clay Co./Brent - Offers kilns, wheels, glazes, arts & crafts, and clays.

Axner Pottery Supply - Axner's online store contains the largest selection of pottery supplies, materials, equipment and books in the known universe. High quality products, superior service, and low prices have been their trademark since 1978.

Bailey Pottery Equipment - Celebrating 25 years of excellence in the pottery field ... Bailey Pottery Equipment is the outgrowth of two professional potters, Jim Bailey and Anne Shattuck Bailey. Visit their Web site to see the online catalog.

BigCeramicStore.com - Your online ceramic store with an easy-to-use, award-winning Web site that includes clay, glazes, chemicals, kilns, extruders, wheels, tools, and everything else you need. Highlights of the site: Tip of the Week, Potter's Studios, Kiln Timesharing, Instructors and Workshops, links, and information.

Bracker's Good Earth Clays, Inc. - This Lawrence, Kansas clay supplier offers everything from supplies and classes to used equipment and a calendar of upcoming ceramic events on its Web site.

Carolina Clay Connection - Full-service pottery supplier featuring clays by Standard, Highwater and Laguna; kilns, glazes, chemicals and equipment. School orders welcome!

Cedar Heights Clay – Introducing the CORELITE brand of refractory kiln shelves from Resco Products. Shelves have never been so light, so strong, so flat so practical! Call 888-283-5547 and ask for Angie Smith.

Ceramic Supply Chicago - Dealer of a wide variety of clay-related products including moist clays, tools, equipment, dry materials, and glazes. Tel: 847-425-1900

Clay Art Center - One of the largest online pottery supply stores, with over 700 pages and 15,000 order buttons, offering all your pottery supply needs and state-of-the-art credit card protection with fraud investigation and insurance. They provide a wealth of information on all products including clay, glaze, materials, kilns, wheels, tools, and much more. They are always adding to and improving the site for your ease of use and peace of mind.

Clayworks Supplies, Inc. - Featuring a full line of clay, glazes, tools, equipment, and books. Their delivery truck serves Maryland, Delaware, Northern Virginia, Southern Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC.

Continental Clay - This site offers quality products, expert advic, competitive prices, and excellent service.

Cookie Cutter Shop - Offers more than 700 remarkable cookie cutters to choose from, large and small.

Davens Ceramic Center - Premixed raku glazes. Featuring a complete line of pottery equipment & supplies. Most items in stock. Davens ships anywhere within 24 hours.

Del Val Pottery Supply - Distributor of Standard and Miller clays and a wide range of supplies. Located in Wyndmoor, PA.

Dolan Tools - All Dolan Precision Tools are individually made from high carbon knife steel and firmly set in hand turned hardwood handles with brass rivets or ferrules. The handles are soaked in an oil/resin bath to make them moisture resistant. Each tool is hand sharpened. Only the finest US steel is used in their manufacture. www.dolantools.net

Euclid's Elements - Quality, low-priced elements for any kiln.

Finch Pottery - Browse through Finch Pottery and Nursery to see stoneware, porcelain, wood-fired, salt-glazed, and Raku pottery, as well as handcrafted Bluebird Homes and blueberry plants.

Flat Rock Clay Supplies – Offers a complete line of pottery supplies and resources in addition to clay workshops and a studio gallery.

Georgies Ceramic & Clay Co. - A reliable supplier of quality ceramic materials, products, and information that support and encourage creativity. Located in Portland, Oregon.

Giffin Tec - The Giffin Grip quickly snaps on and off your wheel. It halves the time previously spent in trimming and makes practical trimming shapes that would otherwise have been left untrimmed. Visit the Web site for information.

Grabers Pottery - Visit www.graberspottery.com to see what great results happen when you use the original Steve Tool! The Steve Tool is a texture application tool. It is a re-invention of the wheel designed specifically for clay. It doesn’t clog easy, so you get lots of raw texture! Use the tool to apply texture to thrown pottery or handbuilt work. 

Great Lakes Clay & Supply Co. - Home of the Glaze-eze underglaze marker; Wax-eze wax resist marker; Versa-bat system, plus various other pottery supplies and equipment.

Guild Sourcebooks - These books are long-standing, prominent wellsprings of ideas, inspiration and resources and reach a vital audience of art and design professionals and enthusiasts. www.guild.com.

Herring Designs - SlabMat supplier. Secure e-commerce site serving artists and art lovers. Site also offers a professional artist gallery and free online classified advertising.

Highwater Clays - Resource for ceramic supplies and equipment: clays (earthenware, mid-range, high-fire and porcelain), brushes, books, and cool tools!

Japan Pottery Tools - Located in San Fransisco, CA, Japan Pottery Tools is a group of people who love to play with clay. Check out these traditional Japanese pottery and ceramic tools at www.japanpotterytools.com.

The Kiln Doctor - Sales, service, and repairs to electric kilns, kiln venting systems, pottery wheels, pug mills, slab rollers, equipment consulting, assembly, operating instructions, and more ... serving Northern Virginia, DC, and Maryland.

L & L Kilns - L & L Kilns - Manufacturer for more than 56 years of ceramic pottery kilns, featuring exclusive "Dyna Glow" Ceramic Element Holders to help improve element and brick life. L&L makes Easy-Fire and Jupiter Polygonal Kilns, DaVinci Square and Rectangular sectional kilns and the new Easy-Load front loading kilns. The L&L Web site also offers information on buying a new kiln, specifications, prices and extensive troubleshooting information.

Laguna Clay Co. - Clay and equipment manufacturer specializing in hundreds of prepared clay bodies, lead-free glazes & underglazes, Pacifica Potter's Wheels, custom gas kilns, and much more. A source for gerstley borate substitutes.

Larkin Refractory Solutions – Refractory super store offering all types of firebrick and other kiln building materials in addition to offering unparalleled service and refractory design assistance.

Manabigama Kiln Plans (John Thies’ Wood Fire Kiln Plans) – The complete set of plans includes 6 pages of plans, a CD of the step-by-step building process, a DVD about making pots, loading, firing, and unloading the Manibigama Kiln, plus a detailed info pamphlet and a complete materials list. For more information call 301-898-3128.

Master Kiln Builders - Offering kiln design and construction with 20 years experience for an affordable, safe, custom kiln built on your site. Car, Soda/Salt, Stoneware, and Wood kiln construction available. Call Donovan Palmquist at (612) 789-1056.

Olympic Kilns - Manufacturer of electric and gas kilns. Sizes range from 1.5 cubic feet to 53 cubic feet interior firing chamber. Custom-made kilns available.

Paragon - Their kilns have been used in artists' studios for 50 years and are known for innovation, quality, and durability. With kilns for ceramics, heat treating, and glass fusing, they make kilns for the most specialized of needs and now offer custom-made furnaces and kilns for many industries.

Peter Pugger - Peter Pugger is known worldwide as the manufacturer of the original clay mixer with pugmill output. These Pugger-Mixers also vacuum deair, have variable speed capability and are equipped with "intellectual technology". This feature allows real-time monitoring of the clay consistency as it is being processed in the machine. Ideal for the classroom or studio, the Peter Pugger can reclaim scrap, warm up a bag of clay, blend clay bodies, and has the fastest cycle times on the market.

PCF Studios - Philippe Faraut offers sculpting classes, videos, books, and seminars based on his education and training as a sculptor.

Sheffield Pottery, Inc. - SPI offers over 30 stock clay bodies, many of which contain native Sheffield, Massachusetts clay. They can produce custom clay bodies according to your exact specifications. Choose from the Northeast's largest inventory of dry materials. Delivery available.

Shimpo Ceramics - A leading manufacturer and distributor of ceramic equipment including potter's wheels, electric kilns, pug mills, banding wheels, and accessories.

Skutt Ceramic Products - For more than 45 years, a leading manufacturer of electric kilns, controllers, and venting systems for use by the hobby and industrial markets. From their KS manual kiln line to their KM automatic kilns to their "new" Kiln Master Zone Control electronic kilns, Skutt offers an extensive line of kiln products to meet a wide variety of needs.

Soldner Clay Mixers by Muddy Elbow Manufacturing - Soldner Clay mixers are still being manufactured with the same quality of construction that has developed the solid reputation for performance over the past 36 years.

Spectrum Glazes- Spectrum Glazes aspires to be known for the highest quality, most colorful and diverse selection of fired finishes available anywhere. We are the only company that devotes its entire energies to manufacturing glazes and other fired ceramic finishes.

Saint-Gobain Ceramics – Advancer kiln shelves provide assurance, performance and savings. Learn more at www.refractories.saint-gobain.com.

Tin Barn Pottery/Kiln Doctor - Located in Manassas, VA, this studio and gallery provides classes, supplies, and special events in northern Virginia.

Trinity Ceramic Supply - Your one-stop shop for ceramic products and a wide variety of raw materials, books, glazes, prepared clays, tools, and other resources.

Tuckers Pottery Supply - Located in Ontario, Canada, this pottery supply has been serving potters and ceramic artists for more than 30 years.

US Pigment Corp. - Supplier of stains and glaze chemicals at reasonable prices.

Ward Burner Systems - A complete source for raku burners, raku kilns, power burners, Venturi burners, protective clothes and gloves, plus brick and fiber. They also stock safety valves, pyrometers, thermocouples ... just about any kind of part for gas kilns and burners.

Wise Screenprint - Custom decals for all ceramic and glass applications. Also offering design and technical assistance. Based in Dayton, OH. (937) 223-1573.