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Pottery is the ceramic ware made by potters. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery. Pottery can also refer to the material of which the potteryware is made. Major types of pottery include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. Pottery is basically made by forming a clay body into objects of a required shape and heatng them to high temperatures in a kiln to induce reactions that lead to permanent changes, including increasing their strength and hardening and setting their shape

Some methods of shaping pottery include:

• Hand building
• The potter's wheel
• Granulate pressing
• Injection moulding
• Jiggering and jolleying
• Roller-head machine
• Pressure casting
• RAM pressing
• Slipcasting

Pottery may also be decorated in a number of ways, such as:

• Incising patterns on the surface of the clay body
• Underglaze decoration
• In-glaze decoration
• On-glaze decoration
• Enamel

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