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Pottery and ceramic art, 3-D Art Restoration and Kintsugi Learning Library
Explore more than 100 lessons, tutorials, videos and essays on pottery making, ceramic art, Kintsugi, and ceramic and sculpture restoration, based on decades of hands-on studio experience. This collection is developed by Lakeside Pottery Studio and Morty Bachar, drawing on practical pottery instruction and professional restoration work.
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Pottery & Ceramic Art
Wheel throwing, hand-building, glazing, kilns and studio techniques
- Choosing The Right Clay | Wheel Throwing
- Weight of Clay For Different Pottery Ware
- How to Throw a Pot Step By Step Tutorial
- Removing Thrown Pot Off the Wheel / Bat
- How to Trim a Pot Step By Step Tutorial
- How to Make Mug and Pulling Handle
- Tips and Tricks on Plates and Platters
- Stage Throwing and Trimming a Large Plate
- How to Throw a Very Large Bowl - Tutorial
- How to Make Large Hookah / Shisha Bowl
- How to Make Chicken / Poultry Waterer
- Surface Texture on Thrown Pottery
- Tools and Tricks | Pottery Surface Texture
- Choose The Right Clay For Hand Building
- Hand-building Methods
- Handbuilding Projects Ideas
- How to make a Pinchpot Clay Hedgehog
- How to Make Large and Small Coiled Pots
- How to Construct a Large Slab Project
- How to Construct Clay Vase | Slab Lesson
- How to Make Ceramic Shoe, a Slab Project
- How to Make Ceramic Tiles and Flat Forms
- Easy Way to Make a Tray Using Push Foam
- How to Construct Clay Quilt | Hanging Art
- How to Decorate Pottery using Sgraffito
- Soft Hump-mold Sculpting Tutorial
- How to Make Ceramic Water Font
- How to Make Starfish and Sea Animals
- Impressing Patterns and Texture in Clay
- Children Projects at Lakeside Pottery
- Kids Animal Projects at Lakeside Pottery
- What Are Clay Drying and Firing Processes
- Guide to Selecting Installing and Safely Operating Electric Pottery Kilns for Home Studios
- Electric Kiln Firing and Tips
- All About Kiln Vent
- How to Select The Right Kiln Shelves
- How to Choose a Bisque Firing Temperature
- Q&A on Cones
- Transformation of Ceramic Materials Relative to Temperature
- How to Estimate Electric Kiln Firing Costs
- How to Troubleshoot an Electric Kiln Guide
- Reduction Firing
- Lakeside Pottery Raku Guide
- Fire, Melt and Fuse Glass With Ceramic
- Understanding Glazes
- How to Mix and Use Glazes
- Dipping Glazes
- Dry Glaze Mixing Instructions
- Our Mid-range (Cone 6) Glaze Recipes
- Glaze Sinking to Bottom
- Glaze Cracking Shivering Crazing Dunting
- What is Crazing and How to Solve it
- What Is Shivering and How to Correct It
- Pinholes and Pitting Issues and Solutions
- What is Glaze Blistering and How to Correct
- What is Glaze Crawling and How to Correct
- Can Matt Glazes Be Used With Food
- Successful Glazing At Lakeside Pottery
- Ceramic Decal Basics
- Lead in Pottery or Ceramic
- Clay, Glaze and Firing Toxic Material List
- Making Wedging or Clay Recycling Table
- How to Reclaim Bone Dry Clay and Scraps
- How to Make Bulk Slip and Clay Slurry
- Simple Way Preventing Clay Clogging Sink
- Magic Water, Magic Mud and Paper Clay
- Pottery / Ceramic Glossary and List of Terms
- Pottery, Ceramic, Kintsugi and Sculpture Restoration Glossary and Terms
- Where Does Clay Come From
- Glossary of Ceramic Raw Materials
- Clay and Pottery Brief History
- Why Do They Call It Throwing
- The Value of Clay and Pottery in School
- Iranian Woman Potter Using an Ancient Technique
Ceramic & Sculpture Restoration
Repair techniques, missing pieces, materials and conservation
- Basic Ceramic Repair
- Selecting the Right Glue
- Removing Old Adhesive Lesson
- Keeping Cemented Pieces in Place While Curing
- Complete A to Z Step-by-Step Ceramic Repair Lesson: Glue Removal, Mending, Filling, Painting, and Glazing
- Chipped Pottery Repair Lesson
- Repairing Crack in Pottery Lesson
- How to Replace Stoneware Crock's Rim Seamlessly
- Filling a Large Gap Pottery Repair Lesson
- Earthenware Vase Repair Lesson
- Bowl Repair Lesson With Missing Pieces
- Making Missing Pottery Section Using Resin Epoxy
- How to Make Missing Parts Using Mold & Resin
- Replacing Missing Hand in a Figurine
- Removing Scratches From Soft Shona Stone Sculpture
- Sculpting Sculpture Missing Segment and Mounting
- How to Repair Sculpture, Statue or Figurine When Metal Pins or Pegs Are Required
- Ceramic Sculpture Repair Lesson
- How to Repair Broken Stone Sculpture or Statue Requiring Metal Reinforcement
- Illustrations of Repairing Large Shona Stone Sculpture
- Painting Lesson on Repaired Pottery or Ceramic
- Achieving Professional Results with Cold Glaze
- Removing Stain from Pottery, China or Ceramic
- Kintsugi / Kintsukuroi Pottery Repair Tutorial
- Very Broken Large Bowl With Missing Segments Repaired and Finished with Kintsugi Process
- Restoring Almost a 100 Year Old Crumbling Paper-Mache Large Santa Sculpture
- Restoring Large Madonna and Child Ceramic Statue
- Broken Plaster Sculptures Repair
- Bronze Sculpture or Bust Repair Lesson
- Repairing Metal Sculpture
- Illustrations of Repairing Plaster Bust
- Antique Figurine Repair Process
- Illustrations of Hopi Indian Pottery Repair
- Illustrations of Repairing Ancient Pottery
- Illustrations of Ancient Method of Repairing Pottery with Staples
- Porcelain and China Marking and Symbols
Technical Essays
Detailed explanations of materials, methods and decisions
- Does Repair Reduce the Value of Pottery Ceramic or Statue
- Reversible vs Non Reversible Repairs
- Why Some Pottery or Sculpture Breaks Keep Failing After DIY Repairs
- Professional or Home DIY Ceramic and Sculpture Repair
- Cementing Complex Multi Break Pottery Vessels
- Restoration Timelines and Ceramic or Sculpture Repair Workflow
- Can Repaired Ceramics Be Food Safe
- Achieving Professional Results with Cold Glaze (PDF)
- Hxtal Epoxy Why It Resists Yellowing and Why It Must Be Treated Differently
- What Makes a Good Ceramic Adhesive
- Choosing and Selecting The Right Clay Body
- Clay Drying and Firing Process
- Complete Guide to Selecting, Installing, and Safely Operating Electric Pottery Kilns for Home Studios
- Estimating Kiln Firing Cost
Reflective Essays
Art, restoration, meaning and creative practice
- When Gold and Kintsugi Become Language
- The Psychology and Practical Motives Behind Restoring Cherished Ceramics and Sculptures
- The Importance of Clay and Pottery in Children’s Development
- Kintsugi A Timeless Art for a Fractured World
- Beyond Mastery: How Perception Continues to Sharpen Long After Skill Is Learned
- Restoring the Impossible: Porphyry Stone Statue & Lessons from Ancient Genius
- If I Were Neither Jewish nor Israeli: A Moral Reckoning with Israel and Palestine
- The Previous Us: What If Artificial Intelligence Is Not the Beginning, but the Return?
Listen to Our Podcasts
Explore audio conversations and stories about pottery, Kintsugi, and art restoration.
Watch Our Videos
Studio processes, pottery techniques, Kintsugi and restoration projects
Extreme Kintsugi Restoration | 5 Before and After Projects
Kintsugi Art: How It Is Made
Cobalt Blue Vase Kintsugi with 23.5K Gold
Making Missing Segments for Gold Kintsugi
Very Broken Large Bowl: Missing Segments and Kintsugi Process
White House Commissioned Kintsugi Vase - 2021
Kintsugi Projects Examples SlideshowFrom Clay to Kintsugi Vase: White House Presidential Gift Project - 2024
Woman Figure Vase Gold Kintsugi Repair
Gold Kintsugi with Gemstone or Seaglass - How?
12" Red Bud-Vase / Pitcher with 23.5K Gold Kintsugi Repair
Adding Gold Kintsugi Rebirth Symbol to a Blue Bowl
Kintsugi Art With Gemstone Inserts
Broken Mug with Missing Handle Gold Kintsugi Repair - Short Version Lesson
Kiln Fired 22K Gold Luster Experiment: Food-Safe Kintsugi Effect on Pottery
Anatomical Ceramic Heart Kintsugi Bud Vase with Gemstones
Blue Bowl Gold Kintsugi Repair with Rebirth Japanese Symbols
Kintsugi Art Process Time Lapse - Crystalline Vase
How We Create a Kintsugi Gold Effect Vessel Complete Process
Repair Broken Ceramic Pottery Lesson Basics
Revival of a Shattered 1,000-Year-Old Chancay Effigy Jar
Marble Stone Sculpture Repair with Metal Rod Reinforcement
Shattered Stoneware Horse Sculpture Restoration
How to Cement a Hairline Crack in a Ceramic Vessel
Restore Broken Plaster Statue
Seamless Invisible Ceramic Repair: All Steps
Restoring a 1936 Papier Mache Santa Sculpture
Restoring a Large Madonna and Child Ceramic Statue
Infant of Prague Plaster Statue Repair and Restoration Steps
Jesus Christ Bust Statue Restoration
Captain America Broken Statue Repair Process
Ceramic and Sculpture Before and After Repair Examples 2022
How to Detect Hairline Crack in a Ceramic Vessel Using Sound
Epoxy Cure Stages Relative to Temperature - PC Clear Epoxy
Glass Candle Holder Repair - Some Restoration Steps
Repair Sculpture or Figurine When Metal Pins or Pegs Are Required
Marble Statue Restoration - Some Steps of How It Is Done
African Shona Stone Sculpture Repair and Restoration
Removing Deep Scratches and Nicks from Stone Sculptures
Duplicating a Missing Handle on a Large Vase
Adding a Missing Hand to a Ceramic Figure
Restoring a Sculpture with a Missing Part - Camel Foot Restoration
Buddha Statue Missing Halo Restoration Using the Pottery Wheel
How to Make Sgraffito Pottery: Step-by-Step Tutorial
Potter's Wheel Chattering Technique for Surface Texture
The Importance of Clay and Pottery in Children's Development
How To Reconstitute and Recycle Clay - Dry Block and Scraps
Throwing and Trimming a Very Large Platter or Bowl
Throwing a Large Platter or Bowl Using 40-50 lbs of Clay
Random Moments at Lakeside Pottery Studio
3D Art Restoration Studio Tour
How It All Started: Lakeside Pottery Studio Channel 12 News Interview 2002Rehoboth Social Podcast with Tom Archino and Morty Bachar
2011 TV Segment About Lakeside Pottery Studio
