PROCESSING OF TRADITIONAL CERAMICS In this section we discuss the production technology used to make traditional ceramic products such as pottery, stoneware and other dinnerware. bricks, tile, and ceramic re. fractories. Bonded grinding wheels are also produced by the same basic methods. What these products have in common is that their raw materials consist primarily of silicate clays. The processing sequence for most of the traditional ceramics consists of ceramics the steps depicted in Figure 17.1