ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the POTTERY is one of the oldest and most universal crafts practised by the human race. The methods of making have varied at times, but almost all of them still serve for some artist potter or rural craftsman as valid ways of making things which people need. This chapter illustrates several of the types of non-wheel pottery described, and also ways of decoration in the clay stages of the work. The modelling is the form of clay work most likely to be familiar to the children of a good Primary School, thumb–pots, which are most similar in the use of the fingers, form the easiest transition to class teaching in pottery. The same slips are used in pottery and two or three colours in addition to the body clay will give a range for great variety of decoration.
