The Practical Potter: A Step-by-step Handbook a Comprehensive Guide to Ceramics with Step-by-step Projects and TechniquesA highly accessible approach to creating beautiful ceramics, with fully illustrated techniques and a range of beautiful step by step projects. Six sections cover design, handbuilding, making and using molds, throwing, glazing and decoration, and kilns and firing. Over 30 projects explore a diverse range of technical and creative possibilities with clay - from a simple hand coiled pot and a wheel thrown cup and saucer to a press molded plate with printed overlays. |
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The Practical Potter: A Step-by-step Handbook : a Comprehensive Guide to ... Josie Warshaw No preview available - 2005 |
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