Clay pipes, bear grease, toothbrushes and sugar moulds all dug up in Whitechapel are now on display as part of a small but ...

Clay pipes were used before cigarettes, and were mass produced through moulds and designed to be used and discarded. The pipes were generally made in the United Kingdom or other parts of Europe ...

Oliver Meeson from Newport, Shropshire, specialises in making 19th Century tobacco pipes using original moulds and historic techniques.

In German-Swiss poet and novelist Hermann Hesse’s prolific book Siddhartha (1922), the potter’s wheel takes the form of a profound metaphor: as the wheel sculpts clay into art, it ...

At one time, Broseley was the centre of the clay tobacco pipe making industry, and its products were exported across the world. "Broseley has a long history of making clay tobacco pipes, partly ...

And yet, clay pipe has been losing market share. As of 2013, a category called "clay and other" was an estimated 0.9 percent of the country's $5.2 billion in drainage and sewer pipe sales ...

A 24-year-old is among the last clay pipe-makers in Britain after coming across the skill by "complete coincidence". Oliver Meeson from Newport, Shropshire, specialises in making 19th Century ...