Creamware cheap, good-quality, mass-produced creamware to Europe had a similar impact on Continental tin-glazed faience factories. By the 1780s Josiah Wedgwood was exporting as much as 80% of his output to Europe. Creamware is made from white clays from Dorset and Devonshire combined with an amount of calcined flint. This body is the same as that used for salt-glazed stoneware, but it is fired to a lower temperature (around 800 °C as opposed to 1,100 to 1,200 °C) and glazed with lead to form a cream-coloured earthenware. The white clays ensured a fine body and the addition of flint improved its
Roger Michell (studio potter) met and subsequently married Napiorkowska, a fellow student. whom he moved with to Yorkshire to establish a pottery in East Knapton. The work produced reflected a shared admiration of 18th century creamware and some ambitious designs were produced influencing the look and feel of nineteen seventies pottery and altering the direction of art and design for the rest of the century. It paved the way for new, young designers who were freed from modernist design constraints of the recent past. A plethora of novel designs began to gain prominence in the high street for example, the liquorice allsorts handbag plus