Brad Yearwood's Ceramics notes

First, I was able to locate a product that is sold directly as pottery tissue, from Potclays Ltd., Stoke-on-Trent.  They are the only suppli...

It has been nearly a year since I have updated this.  I tend to work on projects like this, more at this time of year than at other times. ...

I received a copy of Rudolf Hainbach's Pottery Decorating, 2nd English edition, 1924.  Various works have disparate descriptions of the ...

A correspondent on a ceramics discussion site recommended "cicada wing" xuan (shuen) paper as used for traditional Chinese brush p...

Here are results from a test of the Japanese pre-printed transfers.  The left piece was transferred onto a fully fired coupon; the surface w...

Today I received from Australia, several sheets of commercially produced transfer tissue from Japan: both pre-printed patterns and blank pap...

I had been working under the assumption that transfer printing was done onto bisque fired wares.  There are good reasons for this not to hav...