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The Potter's Bible, Scott
Book - Potter's Bible, Scott
Item#: BK427
ISBN: 978-1610583732
Book Description:
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.
Item#: BK427
ISBN: 978-1610583732
Book Description:
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.
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