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.

Marylin Scott