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The Turquoise Mountain Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization which invests in Afghanistan’s traditional crafts, historic building and landscapes in order to preserve cultural heritage, improve living conditions and create economic opportunities. The Turquoise Mountain Foundation believes that the preservation of Afghan culture is vitally and urgently linked to the country’s much needed economic, social [...]

Ceramics offer properties that are not generally available from metals, plastics or composites, but ceramic components can be difficult to source, especially if time is of the essence. Alistair Rae reports. Design engineers are usually comfortable working with metals and plastics but most have little or no knowledge or experience of ceramics. This is a [...]

Large-format inkjet developer Xennia said it achieved “two truly excellent new OEM agreements” at Ipex. In addition, it unveiled a modular inkjet range at the show, which it claimed enabled manufacturers to target niche applications without having to develop a new press from scratch. Marketing manager Tim Phillips said the company was “very pleased with [...]

Oatlands tourist attraction was put up for sale in April 2010. Since the 1980s it has been known as a craft centre and tourist attraction, but before that the site formed an important part of the growing industry. Originally a farm, recorded as far back as the late 1700s, by 1898 it was recorded as [...]

The driver of the car which crashed into the restaurant at Denby Pottery has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and motoring offences. Police were called to the site on Derby Road, Denby, near Belper in Derbyshire at just after 0400 BST to reports a Toyota car had come off the road. Two people in [...]

Vermilion Standard Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create your own set of plates but just didn’t know where to start? The Vermilion Pottery Guild may just be what you are looking for. “We have 11 members in our guild, six pottery wheels and three kilns. We have just moved into [...]

AROUND 400 teenagers a year are to be taught construction skills at a new £9 million training centre on the site of a derelict pottery works. The 14 to 19-year-olds are needed to help rebuild North Staffordshire’s regeneration areas and will be taught at the redeveloped Grade-II listed former Enson Works, in Longton. Stoke-on-Trent City [...]

The beauty of a ceramic piece is a complex interplay of form, color, texture and surface decoration. One type of surface decoration is the decal or transfer, which is traditionally produced through direct screen printing.