LINKS

These are basic links to various clay sites.  If you know of a good link that would help enhance this listing, please email it to mneumark@hotmail.com.

Period Ceramics

ANCIENT TOUCH Ancient Touch specializes in Ancient Art from Antiquity to Medieval times featuring cultures of the Mediterranean world, Asia Minor and Europe. http://www.ancienttouch.com/ 

Anglo Saxon and Viking Pottery was a very important method of producing cheap cooking pots, bowls, cups, lamps, bottles, jugs, etc.. It was also used for loom-weights, crucibles and moulds. http://www.regia.org/pottery.htm 

Medieval Pottery Construction An online guide to the methods and techniques of making English pottery vessels in the 13th and 14th centuries http://www.medievalpottery.uk7.net/ 

PotWeb: Ceramics online The Ashmoleans's ceramic collections are not only of world-class importance but are wide-ranging: Early Europe & Near East, Classical to Medieval: Europe from 1500: Oriental and Islamic: http://potweb.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/PotScope.html

Pottery Links Part of the Atlantian A&S Homepage http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/topics/pott.htm

Pottery in Egypt

http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/pottery/index.html

Pottery form Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia: Basics on pottery in period and how it was done.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottery

An online guide to the methods and techniques of making English pottery vessels in the 13th and 14th centuries.  Campots arcaeoceramics: http://www.medievalpottery.uk7.net/

Clay Groups

American Ceramic Society: the world's leading organization dedicated to the advancement of ceramics.

http://www.acers.org/

SCA-Potters List: Group of potters within the Society that discuss period pottery in all aspects.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-Potters/

Clay Supply Companies

Laguna Clay: Carries wide variety of clay, glazes, chemicals, and equipment.

http://www.lagunaclay.com

Big Ceramic Store.com:  Stock over 5000 different items for the clay artist.

http://www.bigceramicstore.com/

Amaco American Clay Art Company: like Laguna Clay, yet another distributor of clays, chemicals, and equipment for clay artists.

http://www.amaco.com/jsps/amacohome.jsp

Places to Play

Color Me Mine: Clay Studios specializing in painting your own greenware.  Nationwide.

http://www.colormemine.com

UCSD Crafts Center: The Crafts Center is committed to making useful connections among the University of California, San Diego's various publics.  Offers classes and open studio workshop at reasonable rates.

http://www-crafts.ucsd.edu/

MOST community colleges throughout CAID offer various clay classes at extremely low prices.  Check them out in your area!