Piercing involves cutting openings into leather-hard clay to create lace-like patterns, lantern designs, or decorative cutouts. Pierced pottery can create dramatic lighting effects when illuminated and is popular in lanterns, luminaries, and sculptural ceramics.
Piercing
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