The Potter's Bible: An Essential Illustrated Reference for Both Beginner and Advanced Potters
Sep 2006 · Quarto Publishing Group USA
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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:
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.
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.
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About the author
Marilyn Scott is a professional artist who works across a wide range of media. She studied painting at the Guildford School of Art and the Royal Academy of Painting in London. She is a respected practical art author.
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