Various process of making:

Artwork
Details of the decoration to be applied to the piece of ware. This should be supplied as an original corel or jpeg format.

Bone China (Porcelain)
Bone China is a combination of typical ceramic clays and calcinated bone, the resulting ware being immensely strong but also translucent in fired form. Not to be confused with porcelain, this is derived through a much different mix of clays.

Ceramics/Pottery
An all embracing phrase misused to mean earthenware and china. The definition of ceramics is widely accepted as being pottery and china in all its forms plus industrial ceramics, bricks and tiles, clay pipe, refractory brick, ferrites and alumina in computers and electronics. Some materials in nuclear and laser technologies also fall into the category of ceramics.

Decoration
The image, pattern or text to be applied to the surface of the ware.The decoration is done by either direct or transfer printing. The design is supplied as artwork or is created by an art studio.


Earthenware
Basically composed of clay, often blended clays, and baked hard, the degree of hardness depending on the intensity of heat. An Earthenware vessel is porous and a glaze is applied to render the ware waterproof. If earthenware is fired at a very high temperature the properties of some of the constituents change and the vessel becomes non-porous (vitrification takes place and the ware is sometimes described as stoneware).