Handbuilt Ceramics: Pinching, Coiling, Extruding, Molding, Slip Casting, Slab WorkHandbuilt Ceramics is written for beginners and experts alike. As a newcomer to the world of clay, you'll start by learning how to set up a workshop and gather tools, select a clay and shape it, and decorate and fire what you make. Then, when you're actually ready to plunge your hands into moist clay for the first time, the author will guide you carefully through a series of step-by-step projects: a basic pinch pot, coiled planter, slip-cast pitcher, press-molded relief tile, and more. Each of these projects comes with helpful "how-to" photos, and each is designed to let you practice at least one handbuilding and decorating method. Ceramics teachers will find that this book makes an excellent text for students, and non-teaching professionals will appreciate the chapters on commission work and inspiration. |
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A10 reduction Appendix areas artist Bottom Ball clay bisque firing bisqued ware bone-dry brush bucket carved casting slip Center left Center right ceramic stains clay body clay pieces clay ruler clear glaze coils colored clay colored slips cone crack deflocculant dried edges electric kiln engobe extruded flat formula glaze coating glaze firing greenware handbuilding handle holes hump mold installation interior kaolin Kathy Triplett keep kiln kiln wash layer low-fire luster matt glaze melt moist clay mold form Nepheline syenite overglaze Photo by artist pitcher plaster plaster mold plastic porcelain potters Press molded pyrometer Pyrometric cones raku fired roll score sgraffito shape shelves shown in Photo shrinkage slice slip-cast slurry smooth sodium silicate spray stick stiffen stoneware studio sure surface teapot terra sigillata texture thick tile Tim Barnwell tion tool Top left tubes underglazes unglazed walls Zane Smith