For the past couple of weeks I’ve been going through an index of potters in Traditional English Country Crafts, published in 1975, which as a treasure trove of studio potters and potteries operating in the UK in the 60s and 70s (the Dark Ages for Pottery marks). It’s added some of the missing information on […]
We’ve added a new search function, for searching on partial words, using – and *. A dash, or dashes, can be used to replace single letters in a word, eg, B-rry or B-r-y An asterix can be used to replace several letters in a word where you’re unsure how many there are, eg, Ba*y Although […]
Because the database was set up primarily as a search site for marks I wasn’t too diligent in the way I entered the text such as names and addresses. But having used it on and off to search for the biographical details of various potters I’ve realised that has limited it’s use when searching on […]
I’ve discovered a lot of early entries with unticked shape boxes – circle, square, etc. Not sure if it was my fault when I was originally imputing the marks, or if there was a glitch in the programme when we were editing the boxes to add additional ones, but I have about a thousand to […]
So today I discovered that I can’t search for names such as O’Gorman because the database doesn’t recognise the apostrophe. I thought it had been fixed when we discovered it was adding a ‘?’ in place of an apostrophe in the text but it seems to have broken again. I’m currently going through all the […]
We found that some research results overload the system so we’ve solved that by splitting it up into pages, with 50 results (photos) per page. So if there are more than 50 search results, you’ll find the additional pages at the bottom of the page. If you’re on a desktop PC then you’ll find the […]
The Text box will only search on text ‘as it is written’ in the database. The advantage is that if you only have a partial word, potter or pottery name, then it will search for it. But it’s not like Google where you can put a string of search words in and it’ll use a […]
Anyone frustrated by searching for double letters such as SS, BB, MM etc, I have now finished updating the files so if you type that in the Text box, eg, BB, and tick the letter B (along with any other search criteria) then it should get rid of the extraneous search results. If you also […]
If anyone had been wondering what the strange symbol was, that appeared at the end of the A-Z tick boxes, it was the temporary tick box for Single Letter searches. I’ve now finished editing the files and changed it to a tick box called ‘Single Letter’, so if there is just an F, B, E, […]
Welcome to the site. For those who are already regular users, thank you for your forbearance as the marks have been added; it’s taken a bit longer than expected to get this far, but there are now over 6000 potters/pottery entries on the database and over 16,000 records. My husband has resized the photos and […]
