An essential guide for beginner and advanced potters, featuring step-by-step photographs to guide you through a comprehensive range of techniques.

Begin making beautiful ceramics, even if you’ve never attempted pottery before, following detailed information about: • Essential tools and studio equipment • Different types and constituencies of clay—including earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, and raku • Forming methods—including pinching, coiling, slabbing, press molding, throwing, and trimming • Adding texture and patterns—with techniques such as sgraffito, stamping, inlaying, and burnishing • Painting and printing—using slip, banding and combing, resists, and underglazes • Glazes and post-firing techniques—including salt and soda glazes, lusters, and metal leaf • Essential technical resources—such as glaze recipes, types of kilns and firings, and health and safety tips

With its combination of practical advice, exciting images, inspirational ideas, and a glossary, this book is a must-have for all potters at any stage of their career.

© 2006 Chartwell Books (Ebook): 9781610583732

Release date

Ebook: September 8, 2006