Pottery
Pottery
The pottery process starts off with wet clay, which can be modelled into just about any shape or form. Left to dry, the clay will become hard, and the final step is to put the vessel into a kiln to be fired.
This turns clay into ceramics, no longer soft or workable but durable and eternal (the first pottery shards ever discovered date back almost 12000 years).
The different types of pottery and clay can be classified as earthenware, a low-fired clay which is often red or brown (such as terra-cotta), in colour, but depending on additives can be off-white or buff; and stoneware, a high-fired, white or grey clay, so named due to its density and hardness. Porcelain is the highest fired, most pure of all clays.
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