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Plate Racks

Now that you have some porcelain in your collection, how do you show it off? The figurines need horizontal space for display, but, luckily, plates can be shown off in wall plate racks. Although most china cabinets have built-in features to allow you to stand the plates up at the back of the cabinet, anything [...]

Tin-Glazing and Why It Is So Popular

When you look back at the ceramics produced over time and world wide, one technique keeps re-occurring, tin-glaze. What is so alluring about this method of finishing plain pottery? Color. Not the color of tin-glaze, but the way it makes other colors pop. When fired, the tin-glaze provides an opaque white base for any other [...]