Born enslaved around 1800 in Edgefield, South Carolina, a region known for its rich clay, Drake (who was also known as Dave the Potter) was one of relatively few African American potters to sign his work.
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Jori Finkel,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
Combining centuries-old Jewish folklore with the then-new medium of cinema, Paul Wegener and Carl Boese’s pioneering horror film draws its inspiration from a legend about a life-sized clay figure — a golem — that came to life to protect the Jews of Prague.
Though the locker room area felt a little cramped, the treatment menu itself could not be more extensive, with everything from Indian head massages and Guinot facials to Dead Sea mud therapy and a special selection of Ayurvedic offerings.
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Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Oct. 2025
Video posted Wednesday on X shows the streets of Santa Cruz, Jamaica, completely covered in mud.
This clarifying clay mask pairs kaolin and bentonite clays with bamboo charcoal to draw out pore-clogging impurities and sweep away excess oil—without leaving your skin feeling parched.
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Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
30 Sep. 2025
Oily to combination skin types can rejoice—blurring pigments combine with oil-absorbing kaolin clay for a long-lasting mattifying effect.
To that end the brand hosted an experiential exhibit inside the Grand Palais that brought running to life by creating shifting floor environments from sand to concrete and forest soil to urban gravel, with matching soundscapes.
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Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
27 Oct. 2025
And riding or walking the trails gives users more than a stretch of gravel or asphalt to explore.
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