These pages are published to be read, quoted and linked to. The terms below are short because the situation is simple: the text and the photographs on this site belong to the desk that made them, and the reader is welcome to make ordinary use of both.
Nothing here is advice. The practices described are documented as they are carried out by working artists, and every workshop carries its own risks, from kiln temperatures to edge tools to the tide itself. A reader who acts on what is described here does so with their own judgement and their own precautions.
Using these pages
Reading, printing for personal use, and linking to any page are all free and need no permission. Reproducing a whole article, republishing a photograph, or using the material to train or fine tune a model that reproduces it are not covered by that permission and need a written agreement, which starts with a note to the desk.
Quoting the chronicle
Short quotations are welcome with the title of the page and a link to it. That is the whole requirement: a reader who follows the link should land on the page the quotation came from, so that the context and the sources travel with the sentence. Paraphrasing a passage and attributing the underlying facts to their original sources is better still, and those sources are named at the foot of the pages that rely on them.
Photographs and figures
The photographs on this site illustrate the practice being described; they are not offered as evidence that a particular event took place, and no image here is presented as a document of a named studio or person. Where a page reports a figure, the figure belongs to the source named at the foot of that page rather than to the chronicle, and a reader who intends to rely on it should take it from that source directly.
Changes to these terms
If these terms change, the revised version replaces this page and the date shown on it changes with it. There is no separate archive of previous versions, and no notification is sent, because this is a chronicle rather than a service with accounts. A reader who needs to rely on a particular wording should keep a copy of the page as it stood.
Questions about any of this reach the desk through the contact page, and what happens to the data in that message is set out in the privacy policy.