Ceramic Art Trends, Tools, and Techniques for Potters Worldwide

advertisement

website hit counter

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.

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!

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

Chinese Clayart USA
Supplier of specialized pottery tools including the glaze sprayer, round edger, and texture mats. PO Box 1733, Cupertino, CA 95015. (800) 689-2529; www.chineseclayart.com.

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.

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.

Fulwood Measure
The perfect tool for same-size production pottery. A unique hinged pointer measures height and diameter of the pot and moves out of the way when not in use. With the Fulwood Measure, you can get it right every time! www.kissimmeeriverpottery.com

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.

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!

Insulating Firebrick
Offering straights, arches, wedges, and in-house machining of special shapes; 2300 to 3000 degree firebrick for immediate delivery. www.insulatingfirebrick.com

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.

Kentucky Mudworks
Expand your palette with 12 new Mudworks cone 6 glazes! Fall glaze sale features a 25% discount on all colors of glaze through the month of October. Also featuring new "dirty girls" tools and new Web site premiering in October! Visit www.kentuckymudworks.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
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.

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.

Mayco Color
Introducing new Clay Art Glazes featuring Raku,. Cone 5 & 6 and Crystalline glazes! Visit our Web site at www.maycocolors.com/clayart_glazes.cfm.

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.

Mid-South Ceramic Supply
Offering a higher standard of service, supplies, and education for ceramic artists, students, and teachers. Visit us online at www.midsouthceramics.com.

Minnesota Clay USA
Introducing MB Stoneware, a versatile cone 6-10 stoneware clay that can be fired in electric, gas, wood, and soda kilns. An extremely smooth, white, plastic clay body. To learn more, call 800-CLAY-USA or visit www.minnesotaclayusa.com.

MKM Pottery Tools
Maker of a wide variety of tools for the ceramic artist, ranging from stamps for unique impressions in clay to basic and advanced tools for wheel-throwing, sculpting, and more. www.mkmpotterytools.com.

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 Industries
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.

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

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.

Sculpture House
Maker of the new TALC-FREE "Hugo" moist pottery clay, a stoneware that fires to a pure strong white color, throws well on the wheel, and is adaptable to craft glazes. To learn more about our clays, tools, supplies, and equipment for clay artists, visit www.sculpturehouse.com.

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.

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.

Speedball Art Products
The modern medium for an ancient art — Maker of lead-free underglaze, low-fire earthenware, and high-fire stoneware glazes.

Thomas Stuart Wheels
"Pots seem to throw themselves on these wheels — ask a potter who owns one," says master potter Robin Hopper. Learn more at www.thomasstuart.com.

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.

 
About Clay Times  |  Contact Us  |  Online Articles  |  Back Issues  |  Free Sample