What is Nerikomi?

How I got started with the Nerikomi technique and what the different terms used to describe it mean.

I started ceramics more than 15 years ago now, but it’s only in the last five or so that I started experimenting with colored clay. At first, I just used two clays I had on hand, white and red stoneware clays with similar shrink rates (and that is a very important factor). I wedged them separately then stuck them together and threw with them. I loved the result so I kept going.