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The ceramics bible : the complete guide to materials and techniques / by Taylor, Louisa.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-279) and index.Introduction -- Types of ceramic ware -- Section 1: Materials And Tools: -- Types of clay -- Other materials -- Clay recipes -- Preparing clay -- Cut and stack wedging step by step -- Ram's head wedging step by step -- Spiral wedging step by step -- Drying overview -- Drying step by step -- Raw materials -- Oxides -- Stains -- Storing chemical materials -- Tools -- Kiln furniture and accessories -- Studio equipment -- Glazing equipment -- Safety procedures -- Section 2: Forming Techniques: -- Introduction to handbuilding -- Coiling step by step -- Pinching step by step -- Extruding step by step -- Slab work step by step -- Gallery: handbuilding -- Artist profile: Nao Matsunaga -- Introduction to slip casting and molds -- Press molds step by step -- Ready-made molds step by step -- Making a model step by step -- Making a two-piece mold step by step -- Slip casting step by step -- Gallery: slip casting and molds -- Artist profile: Heather Mae Erickson -- Introduction to throwing -- Types of wheels -- Centering step by step -- Throwing a cylinder step by step -- Throwing a bowl step by step -- Throwing a bottle form step by step -- Throwing a closed form step by step -- Throwing a lidded vessel step by step -- Making a lid -- Trimming step by step -- Pulling a handle step by step -- Joining a handle step by step -- Troubleshooting: throwing -- Gallery: throwing -- Artist profile: Prue Venables -- Section 3: Glazing And Firing Techniques: -- Glazes overview -- Glaze recipes-earthenware -- Glaze recipes-stoneware -- Glaze testing -- Preparing glaze -- Applying glaze -- Troubleshooting: common glaze faults -- Introduction to kilns -- Types of kilns -- Loading the kiln -- Kiln temperature and kiln programs -- Introduction to firing -- Oxidized firing overview -- Oxidized firing process -- Gallery: oxidized firing -- Artist profile: Natasha Daintry -- Reduction firing overview -- Reduction firing process -- Gallery: reduction firing -- Artist profile: Chris Keenan -- Salt and soda firing process overview -- Salt and soda firing process -- Gallery: salt and soda firing -- Artist profile: Robert Winokur -- Wood firing overview -- Wood firing process -- Gallery: wood firing -- Artist profile: Janet Mansfield -- Raku firing overview -- Raku firing process -- Gallery: raku firing -- Artist profile: Ashraf Hanna -- Section 4: Decorative And Finishing Techniques: -- Slip decoration and surface overview -- Slip decoration recipes -- Slip decoration and surface techniques -- Gallery: slip decoration -- Artist profile: Elke Sada -- Enamels, lusters, and transfers overview -- Enamels step by step -- Lusters step by step -- Transfers step by step -- Gallery: enamels, lusters, and transfers -- Artist profile: Alice Mara -- Engraving and sandblasting overview -- Engraving methods -- Sandblasting step by step -- Artist profile: Maria Lintott -- Finishing overview -- Grinding and polishing methods -- Post-firing techniques -- Fixing and display -- Gallery: finishing -- Artist profile: Neil Brownsword -- Section 5: Resources: -- Training courses -- Residencies -- Marketing -- Trade shows -- Art gallery and museum collections -- Representation -- Guilds, organizations and associations -- Workshops and studios -- Suppliers -- Useful charts -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgments.Publishers Description: Ceramicists have been plying their art and craft for thousands of years, and never more prolifically than today. The Ceramics Bible is the most comprehensive and up-to-date volume on the subject. Brimming with more than 700 full-color photos and illustrations, this is the new definitive guide for serious ceramics practitioners. Inside are step-by-step instructions on molding, firing, and glazing techniques, generously accompanied by detailed photographs. Also included are beautiful examples of contemporary work, plus plenty of historical information, artist profiles, troubleshooting tips, and an extensive resource section. Perfect for students, artists, and collectors, this is a tremendously valuable addition to the vibrant world of ceramics.
Subjects: Ceramics; Ceramics; Ceramics; Pottery;
© 2011., Chronicle Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The potter's dictionary of materials and techniques / by Hamer, Frank.; Hamer, Janet.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-421).
Subjects: Pottery craft; Ceramic materials;
© 2004., A & C Black ; University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Alternative kilns & firing techniques : raku, saggar, pit, barrel / by Watkins, James C.,1951-; Wandless, Paul Andrew.;
Ceramic artists share their fast-firing methods and directions for building simple kilns. This book illustrates the full scope of the ceramic process and the diverse results that can be achieved.--[book cover].Out of the kiln, into the fire -- A fellowship in clay -- Raku -- Origins and modern practice -- Building a raku kiln -- Basic raku firing -- Alternative raku reduction techniques -- Amber-tinted ferric chloride reduction -- High-contrast horsehair reduction -- Rust-red reduction -- Terra sigillata reduction -- Gunmetal black reduction -- Copper matte-alcohol reduction -- Iridescent luster fuming -- Low-fire salt fuming -- Saggar -- Silver-black terra sigillata with masked resist -- Multi-colored surfaces -- Aluminum foil saggar -- Iridescent luster fuming in a clay saggar -- Pit -- Barrel -- Terra sigillata and barrel firing -- Downdraft stovepipe barrel kiln -- Gallery -- Glazes, slips, and colorants -- Orton cone chart.
Subjects: Kilns.; Firing (Ceramics); Pottery craft.; Raku pottery.;
© 2006, ©2004., Lark Books,
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Pinch pottery : functional, modern handbuilding / by Halls, Susan.;
Pinching the basic forms -- Essential shapes -- Open-ended shapes -- Adding elements to your form -- Lips and edges -- Feet and foot rings -- Handles -- Lids -- Knobs -- Featured artist: Mary E. Rogers -- Pre-fired surface treatments -- Adding and subtracting clay -- Featured artist: Julie Whitmore -- Featured artist: Vicki Grima -- Color and glaze -- Introducing color -- Decorating and glazing techniques -- The decorated surface -- Patterns -- Where to decorate? -- Featured artist: Emily Schroeder Willis -- Vase of many faces -- Clays -- Earthenware -- Stoneware -- Porcelain -- Marbling colored -- Coloring clay -- Featured artist: Jenny Mendes -- Kilns and glaze firings -- Kiln types -- Types of firings -- The projects -- Big bowl -- Covered jar -- Triplet herb planter -- Shaker -- Vase -- Hearty mug -- Country jug -- Hors d'oeuvres tray -- Cozy teapot."Utilizing techniques readers may have learned long ago in summer camp, like making pinch pots, Susan shows how easy it is to create a wealth of ceramic forms that are refined and incredibly modern looking. She begins with simple shapes anyone can make, like the classic pinch pot, and then moves on to pinching a sphere, a wide bowl, a trumpet shape, and finally a cylinder. From there Susan demonstrates how easy it is to cut, alter, and combine these shapes to make more complex forms."--Includes bibliographical references (page 126) and index.
Subjects: Pottery craft.; Pottery;
© [2014], Lark,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The potter's studio clay & glaze handbook : an essential guide to choosing, working, and designing with clay and glaze in the ceramic studio / by Zamek, Jeff.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.I: Setting up shop -- Follow the clay: a sensible working studio -- A potter's tool chest -- 2: The nature of clay -- What is clay? -- Acquiring clay: buy premixed or mix your own? -- Choosing a ceramics supplier -- Clay body formulas -- Testing clay body formulas -- Troubleshooting clay imperfections -- 3: Glazes -- Glaze chemistry -- Adjusting and testing glazes -- Glaze technique -- Troubleshooting glazes -- 4: Heating ceramic materials -- Inside the kiln -- Firing methods -- Troubleshooting S-crack issues.
Subjects: Pottery craft; Pottery craft;
© 2009., Quarry Books,
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The potter's studio handbook : a start-to-finish guide to hand-built and wheel-thrown ceramics / by MuÌller, Kristin.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 184) and index.I: Studio requirements and properties of clay -- Your studio -- Tools and equipment -- Clay -- Preliminary clay techniques -- Hand building -- Throwing on the potter's wheel -- Decorative and finishing techniques -- Ceramic kilns and firing work -- How to fire an electric kiln -- II: Step-by-step guide to hand building and pottery wheel projects -- Hand-building projects -- Beginning wheel projects -- Intermediate wheel projects.
Subjects: Pottery craft; Pottery craft; Artists' studios; Pottery craft;
© c2007., Quarry Books,
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Hand printing from nature / by Bethmann, Laura Donnelly,1953-; Bethmann, Laura Donnelly,1953-Nature printing with herbs, fruits & flowers.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 186) and index.Direct impressions of life -- Collecting natural objects -- Pigments & supplies -- Printing methods -- Print projects with single & repeated motifs -- Creating hand-printed patterns -- Printing scenes & flowers."Transfer the beauty of freshly gathered natural treasures onto paper, pillows, chairs, draperies, clothing, and even ceramics."--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: Nature prints; Plant prints;
© 2011., Storey Pub.,
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Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000 : diversity and difference : Jacqueline M. Atkins ... [et al.] / by Kirkham, Pat.; Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts.;
Prologue: American women in the twentieth century / Pat Kirkham, Sara A. Lichtman, and Eileen Boris -- Women designers in the USA, 1900-2000: diversity and difference / Pat Kirkham and Lynne Walker -- Women designers and the Arts and Crafts Movement / Wendy Kaplan -- The sacred hoop: Native American women designers / Pamela Kladzyk -- "Three strikes against me": African American women designers / Pat Kirkham and Shauna Stallworth -- "Wellpaying self support": women textile designers in the USA / Mary Schoeser and Whitney Blausen -- Tradition and transformation: women quilt designers / Jacqueline M. Atkins -- Women fashioning American fashion / Valerie Steele -- Women jewelry designers / Toni Greenbaum and Pat Kirkham -- Women metalsmiths / Jeannine Falino -- Designing Hollywood: women costume and production designers / Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Pat Kirkham -- In "A man's world": women industrial designers / Ella Howard and Eric Setliff -- Women furniture makers: from decorative designers to studio makers / Edward S. Cooke Jr. -- "A woman's place..."?: women interior designers -- 1900-1950 / Pat Kirkham and Penny Sparke -- 1950-2000 / Judith B. Gura -- Women landscape designers / Leslie Rose Close -- "Quietly fine"/Quietly subversive: women ceramic designers / Cheryl Buckley -- Colophon: women graphic designers / Ellen Lupton.
Subjects: Design; Women designers;
© 2000., Yale University Press,
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Container theme gardens : 42 combinations, each using 5 perfectly matched plants / by Ondra, Nancy J.; Cardillo, Rob,photographer.;
Why try containers? -- Nine reasons to try containers -- Basics of container gardening -- Playing with color. Five-part harmony of color ; Bold contrast ; Pretty in pastel ; Rich reds ; Orange all over ; Growing sunshine ; Singin' the blues ; Regal purple ; Elegant whites ; Sparkling silvers ; Back to black -- Through the seasons. Spring cheer ; All-summer color ; Autumn's brilliance ; Winter wonders ; Year-round interest -- Location, location, location. Made for shade ; Beat the heat ; Balcony beauties -- Designed to attract. Hummingbird haven ; Butterfly banquet ; Kid attraction -- Small wonders. A mini meadow ; Pond in a pot ; Magic in miniature -- Fun and colorful edibles. Salad on deck ; Herbs on the windowsill ; A pot of tea ; Bursting with berries -- Special themes. Just right for night ; Living perfume ; Asian-inspired tranquility -- All about the plants. Annual appeal ; Perennial punch for shade ; Tropical sunset ; Lovely leaves -- All about the containers. Terra-cotta charm ; The everyman's plastic pot ; Copper beauty ; Cemented in place ; Country hardwood ; Eye-catching ceramic.Ondra shows you how to choose a container and a five-plant theme, and use them to create a beautiful combination for any season, situation, or taste. She shows you how to choose the color scheme, arrangement, and container that will fit your style.
Subjects: Container gardening.;
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Ten thousand years of pottery / by Cooper, Emmanuel.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-347) and index.Early beginnings -- The ancient world: Cyprus, the Cyclades, Greece, Italy -- The Oriental world: China, Korea, Japan, South-East Asia -- The Islamic world -- Continental European earthenwares and stonewares: Byzantium, Italy, Spain and Portugal, Germany, France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia -- Britain: c. 200 BC until AD 1800 -- European porcelain: Germany, France, Italy and Spain, Scandinavia, the Low Countries and Russia, Britain and Ireland -- American-Indian pottery -- Living traditions: Modern tribal and indigenous societies -- Modern America -- Craft into industry: Britain 1750-1900 -- The arts and crafts movement -- Artist-potters -- Studio ceramics today: frivolity, self-expression, content.
Subjects: Pottery;
© 2000., University of Pennsylvania Press,
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