How do we do it? 

All pottery's secrets in one article…

CLAY PREPARATION:  The first step in working in ceramics after finding the right plastic clay body is the wedging: it is the process of mixing the clay by hand by rotating and pressing a clay ball on a table. The purpose is to thoroughly homogenize the clay and to remove all air bubbles. This is particularly important, as the presence of air bubbles in the clay will result in explosions in the kiln as the air pockets expand and burst.

 FORMING:   After the clay has been thoroughly wedged, it may be formed by a variety of methods: slab, wheel, coil, pinch, and mold. These methods may be combined, or used singly

Bisque Firing: After a piece has dried to "greenware" it's loaded into the kilns for the first of two firings. This firing is to approximately 1110 degrees Celsius. The bisque firing takes a total of 3 days from start to finish.

 Glazing: The glazing process begins with a mixture of ground glass, clays, coloring materials and water, and applied to the bisque by dipping, pouring, spraying, brushing, sponging, or some combination of these techniques. The footring of each piece must be free of glaze.

Glaze Firing: The firing process is a three day affair. After the glaze firing temperature of 1050 degrees Celsius degrees has been reached, the  pieces cool, and on day three, are unloaded, and waiting for being packed and transported, after each item is carfully inspected by QA expertise

Overglaze Firing: Sometimes, we to do additional firings to achiever color and surface effects not possible in the glaze firing. These effects include lusters, china paints and decals. These overglaze techniques are fired at extremely low temperature (600 degrees C.)