In ancient times potters did not have clay suppliers to provide them with raw materials for their glazes and clay bodies. They had to find, collect and process all the materials that they needed to produce their pottery from their local environment. (more…)

In 1990, Jimenez published the story of his research and struggle to recreate, experiment by experiment, the period’s ceramics in a self-published book titled The Epic of Clay. Here, his mystical streak comes out in prose as florid as his Nasrid arabesques: (more…)

According to some critics, craft has been assimilated by fine art, yet aside from a few reviews in the N.Y. Times, I haven’t noticed that the battle had been won. I have not avoided writing about craft in these pages [ed. note: (more…)