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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 | |