Etsy.com

[Sharon Polidoro]

Hi everyone,

There a great online venue for buying and selling handmade items
called Etsy. There is a section of the site for ceramics and
pottery. It includes a wide range of quality and styles.

With the holidays coming, it's a great place to purchase homemade
items (knits, crafts, soap, art, glass, pottery, etc.). And to sell
such items as well.

Check it out at: http://www.etsy.com/

I've bought a number of items from different sellers and have been
happy with my purchases. Similar to Ebay, the buyers and sellers rate
the transactions as positive, negative or neutral, and that feedback
is available for other users to see to evaluate the trustworthiness
and quality of who they are buying from.

Also, I enjoy perusing the pottery to get ideas for future
projects. :)

This morning featured on the front page I saw a plate that looks like
it has a green crackle /woos blue glaze combo.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=fp_feat_26&listing_id=16867393
Now I think I'm going to try out that combo in a similar manner and
see if it works as well. LOL.

Sharon

[Bruce Glassford]

It's a really neat site - and thanks for the pointer to ants pottery.
Really nice stuff out there.

Bruce (started one up at mooseandsheep.etsy.com but certainly no
competition for most of the potters out there)

[Sharon Polidoro]

Found an interesting article looking at the word origins of pottery terms.  Includes the origin of the term "throwing." http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/why_throwing.htm

[dolce]

Sharon, I just read through the article. Thank you so much.

It's fascinating to know the origin of many pottery-related terms.
When I started pottery 4 years ago, I thought of where the words come
from. 'Throwing' was my first thought, and why 'bat', etc.
Otherwise, I just accepted the terminology.

Recently I have had chance to buy Japanese pottery books and
magazines, and I found some current Japanese pottery words come from
Portuguese or French, but some, of course, from Chinese and Korean,
and others are totally Japanese own.

Since I didn't know Japanese pottery words at all, sometimes I find
Japanese words or expressions very humorous but understandable. For
example the process we center the clay on the bat, raising it up and
down and pushing hard to centering is:"Tsuchi-koroshi in Japanese,
which means 'killing the clay. ------just a
chat. Dolce