The colorful glaze on that ceramic mug of yours may look nice, but there's a chance that it could contain toxic substances. US scientists have thus created a safer type of glaze, that incorporates ...

As autumn design showrooms reset their mood boards, one humble surface is about to upend your splashback plans for 2026.

Former social worker turned Great Pottery Throw Down star Hayley Rowlands finds calm through clay, crafting nature and ...

How does lead wind up in crockpots and other ceramic food and drink containers? Ceramic ware is glazed before entering a kiln to bake. These glazes sometimes contain lead to give products an ...

Lithuanian designer Agne Kucerenkaite reveals the value of industrial metal waste in her project Ignorance is Bliss, which sees the material used to make colourful ceramics. Ignorance is Bliss ...

THE Chinese potters employed for the colouring of their glazes prior the fourteenth century two metals, and two only, for the great majority of their effects. Those two metals were iron and copper, ...