Also known as a batter board, a pottery wheel bat is a thin slab of wood, plaster, or plastic used to support pottery forms while you throw. Because the bat piece can be lifted from the wheel head, ...

Once a pottery piece is off the wheel and dry, it often goes back on another kind of turntable, a banding wheel, so it can be painted, glazed, or otherwise embellished. The rotating platform gives you ...

Pottery making can be messy with muddy hands shaping a mix of dirt and minerals forming delicate ridges to form a recognizable shape. The scenes have played out throughout history, with pottery making ...