The potter's complete studio handbook The essential, start-to-finish guide for ceramic artists
Book - 2011
Pottery making and wheel throwing is a timeless craft, perfect for beginner crafters and artisans who don't mind getting their hands dirty. The Potter's Complete Studio Handbook is the perfect guide for all levels to enjoy and master the art of pottery. The book is a compilation of the best features from The Potter's Studio Handbook and The Potter's Studio Clay and Glaze Handbook, bringing the best of hand-building and wheel-throwing techniques together with comprehensive instruction for clays and glazes.
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Beverly, Mass. :
Quarry Books
[2011]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 319 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-309) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781592537464
- Studio requirements, and properties of clay. Your studio ; Tools and equipment ; Clay ; Preliminary clay techniques ; Hand building ; Throwing on the potter's wheel ; Decorative and finishing techniques ; Glaze chemistry ; Troubleshooting glazes ; Ceramic kilns and firing work ; How to fire an electric kiln
- A step-by-step guide to hand-building, and pottery wheel projects. Hand-building projects ; Beginning wheel projects ; Intermediate wheel projects ; Clay and glaze formulas ; Going into the ceramics business.