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Pottery - #1 - Write or Explain the different types and uses of pottery and the materials used in making it.

Stage One of Pottery requires you to orally explain or write the different types of pottery we will try to create and design in this honor.

There is various types of techniques and designs that can be found on what is pottery and ways of moding them or decorating. The Britannica Encyclopedia on the Internet talks about the various ways one to work with the pottery.

Kinds of Pottery and Techniques

Earthware

Earthware

earthware images (bing.com)

Stoneware

Stoneware

stoneware images (bing.com)

Porcelian

Porecelien

porecilien images (bing.com)

 

Porcelian

Forming processes and techniques

Shaping the Clay

Drying, turning, and firing

Incising, sgraffito, carving, and piercing

 

Decorating and Glazing

Painting

Western Pottery

Early Iron Age

Classical Period

Early Islamic

Later Persian

European to 1800

Majolica

France and Belgium

Stoneware

Netherland

17th Century Slipware

Scandinavia

Stoneware and Earthenware

20th Century

East Asian and Southeast Asian

Song Dynasty (960-1279)

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)

European influence and the export trade

Japan

Edo Period (1603-1867)

American Indian Pottery

South America

Bone China Pottery

Pottery | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica

 


What else can you think of how pottery can be used that I have not mentioned at this time?

Please listen to the Video for the needed information for step 1 on worksheet.

 
   


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