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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| The Safety Aspect | |
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| The World of Ceramics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Clay and Pottery | |
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| History's Influence on the Ceramic Art of Today | |
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| Functional vs Sculptural | |
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| Types of Ceramic Wares | |
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| Earthenware | |
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| Stoneware | |
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| Porcelain | |
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| What is Clay? | |
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| What is a Clay Body? | |
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| Paperclay | |
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| Alternative clays and additions | |
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| Why Mix Your Own Clay Body? | |
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| Methods of Mixing Clay Bodies | |
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| Storing the Clay | |
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| How important is fired shrinkage and absorption? | |
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| How to reclaim scrap clay | |
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| What is Glaze? | |
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| Firing Ceramics | |
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| The Craft of Working with Clay by Hand | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Tools for Working | |
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| Wedging Clay | |
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| Building by Hand: Introduction | |
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| Hand-building Techniques | |
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| Pinching clay | |
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| Coil method, smooth or textured | |
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| Slab-building | |
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| Learning from Techniques used by Indigenous Peoples | |
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| Methods of forming | |
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| Altering While Building | |
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| Changing clay surface | |
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| Coloring with mineral/ vegetable matter | |
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| Working with Plaster | |
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| How to make a mold | |
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| Casting Slip into Molds | |
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| Make Your Own Casting Slip or Buy It Ready-made | |
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| How to Mix Plaster and Pour a Form | |
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| Throwing on the Potter's Wheel | |
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| Anyone can Learn to Throw... | |
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| To the Beginner | |
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| Steps in Throwing on the Potter's Wheel | |
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| Wedging | |
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| Position at the wheel | |
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| Centering | |
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| Opening the ball | |
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| Practice These Five Shapes | |
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| Pull up and shape a cylinder | |
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| Half-spherical shape | |
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| Full spherical shape | |
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| Sphere and cylinder combined | |
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| Low open form | |
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| Other Shapes are Variations | |
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| Pitcher | |
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| Handles | |
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| Casserole | |
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| Lids and flanges | |
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| Teapot, coffee pot | |
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| Sets | |
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| Closed form | |
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| Do-nut | |
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| Throwing off-the-hump | |
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| Trimming Feet | |
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| Large Forms from the Wheel | |
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| Ceramic Sculpture | |
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| What is Ceramic Sculpture? | |
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| Using an armature | |
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| Drape in a hammock | |
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| Over-the-hump slab building | |
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| Categories of Sculpture | |
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| Sculpture Tools | |
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| Materials | |
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| Scale | |
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| Fabrication Techniques | |
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| Drying | |
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| Coloring | |
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| Firing | |
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| Firing for a large sculpture | |
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| Finishing Touches | |
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| Enhancing the Clay Form | |
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| Decorating with Clay | |
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| Texture | |
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| Adding clay to clay | |
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| Engobes | |
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| Engobe techniques | |
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| Testing and Using Glazes | |
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| Glaze composition | |
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| Calculating glaze formulas | |
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| Why Make Your Own Glaze? | |
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| Coloring Glazes | |
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| Glaze stains and oxides | |
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| Basic glaze batches for low, medium, high temperatures | |
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| Reds, yellows, and oranges | |
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| Amaco glaze tests | |
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| Duncan glaze tests | |
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| Hobby-Carrobia (Germany) | |
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| glaze tests | |
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| Mayco glaze tests | |
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| Spectrum glaze tests | |
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| Spectrum Multi-color series | |
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| Mixing and Storing Glazes | |
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| Glaze Application | |
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| Methods | |
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| Decorating with Glaze | |
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| Sample Commercial Glazes | |
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| Glass is a Ceramic Material | |
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| Keep records | |
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| Experimentation | |
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| Line blends | |
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| Glaze Improvizations | |
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| Firing Ceramics | |
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| Heat Principles | |
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| Kilns | |
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| Gas kilns | |
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| Electric kilns | |
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| Commercial Ready-made Kilns | |
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| Paperclay Kilns | |
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| Why Build Your Own Kiln? | |
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| Firing Principles | |
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| Temperature Indicators | |
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| Guide-posts for temperature | |
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| Pyrometric Temperature Devices | |
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| Oxidation and Reduction Atmospheres | |
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| Copper reds | |
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| Iron celadons and tenmokus | |
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| Stacking and Firing Kilns | |
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| Bisque firing | |
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| Glaze firing | |
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| Alternative Firings | |
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| Pit firing | |
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| Raku firing | |
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| Salku firing | |
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| Salt firing | |
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| Soda firing | |
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| Wood firing | |
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| Glaze and Firing Problems | |
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| The Art of Ceramics | |
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| From Idea to Art | |
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| Pots and plates | |
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| Birds and animals | |
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| Figures and heads | |
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| Walls | |
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| Mixed media | |
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| Sculpture | |
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| Installations | |
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| The Timeless World History of Ceramic Art | |
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| Compendium | |
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| Suggested Projects for Individual Work | |
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| Decide on general procedure | |
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| Basically functional | |
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| Basically sculptural | |
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| Suggested Projects for Beginning Hand-building | |
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| Progression of Individual Steps in Throwing Projects | |
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| Suggested Projects for Clay, Glaze, and Decoration Experiments | |
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| Body and glaze development | |
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| Decoration | |
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| Design standards to keep in mind | |
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| Experimenting with Material Additions to a Base Glaze | |
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| Glaze Improvizations | |
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| Glaze "Line-blend" Test | |
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| Special Low-fire Information | |
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| Egyptian paste | |
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| Colors for Egyptian paste | |
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| Mosaic cement | |
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| Low-fire engobe | |
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| Some Suggestions for Taking Photographs of your Artwork | |
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| Example of a Pottery Studio | |
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| Terms Easily Mixed Up | |
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| Temperature Equivalents of Orton Cones | |
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| Temperature Equivalents of Seger Cones | |
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| Glossary | |
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| List of Artists | |
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| Residencies | |
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| Information Sources | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |