I mastered pottery wheel techniques using only primitive materials. Rotational shaping allowed for more precise vessels.

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 ...

Don Thi Hieu has spent the last 70 years preserving the pottery making techniques of the ethnic Cham people of Binh Thuan Province. After talking to visitors cheerfully for a few minutes, Hieu puts ...

A potter works in Nazla village in Fayoum, Egypt, on Oct. 5, 2020. The Nazla village of Egypt's Fayoum governorate has been famous for its potters who keep the ancient Egyptian pottery making ...