No not “anarchy in the U.K.“, but ceramics in the United Kingdom is the subject of this blog. But this immortal number of the Sex Pistols was the first thing that flashed through my head when I was thinking about a title of this piece. And not only the music from England is unique.

British ceramics have their own sound, unique like the punk from the eighties, but in earthenware, stoneware or porcelain. It is also the place where Bernard Leach released his “a potters book” in the fourties. Kingdom where Wedgwood completely innovated crockery in design and production from the 18th century. Island where bone china was invented, the Toby jug and the “Great Pottery Throw Down“.

If you don’t have blood but clay slip flowing through your veins, then you want to go there. But where do you have to go to experience this? Continue reading Anarchy and ceramics in the United Kingdom →