Potter's Bible An Essential Illustrated Reference for Both Beginner and Advanced Potters

Name: Potter's Bible An Essential Illustrated Reference for Both Beginner and Advanced Potters
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ISBN: 9780785821434

ISBN-10: 0785821430

ISBN-13: 9780785821434

Edition: 2nd 2006

Authors: Marylin Scott

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Step-by-step photographic sequences guide you through a comprehensive range of shaping, firing, and decorating techniques, so you can begin making wonderful ceramics.

Book details

List price: $14.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Book Sales, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/8/2006
Binding: Comb Bound
Pages: 192
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Introduction


Hand tools


Studio equipment



Clay and pottery bodies


Natural clay


Testing clay


Earthenware


Stoneware


Porcelain


Paper clay


Colored clay


Raku clay


Clay additives


Reclaiming clay


Preparing clay



Forming methods


Pinching


Tutorial: Lidded pinch pot


Coiling


Tutorial: Coiled fruit bowl


Slabbing


Slabbing with molds


Tutorial: Slabbed cheese dish


Press molding


Mixing plaster for molds


Throwing: centering


Throwing a cylinder


Trimming


Thrown lids


Spouts and handles


Tutorial: Thrown and altered bottle


Showcase: Hand-built pots


Showcase: Thrown pots



Texture and pattern


Incising and sgraffito


Stamping and rouletting


Inlaying


Tutorial: Mishima vase


Sprigging


Piercing


Burnishing


Agateware


Tutorial: Hand-built agate leaf form


Showcase: Surface texture


Showcase: Enhancing forms



Painting and printing


Slip decoration


Tutorial: Slip decoration with sgraffito


Pouring and dipping slip


Slip trailing


Feathering and marbling


Painting with slip


Banding and combing


Tutorial: Mocha jug


Using resists


Underglaze colors


Underglaze printing


Showcase: Slip-decorated pots


Showcase: Slip decoration effects



Glazes and post-firing techniques


Decorative use of glazes


Applying glazes


Painting glazes


Tutorial: Majolica fruit bowl


Salt and soda glazes


Crystalline glazes


On-glaze enamels


Lusters


Tutorial: Stamping and sponging luster


Metal leaf


Showcase: Different glaze effects


Showcase: Inventive techniques



Technical resources


Slips and engobes


Glazes and coloring oxides


Earthenware glaze recipes


Raku, stoneware, and porcelain glaze recipes


Macrocrystalline glaze recipes


Textured glaze recipes


Kilns


Kiln temperature


Packing and firing


Saggar and pit firing


Raku firing


Smoke firing


Health and safety


Glossary


Index


Credits