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- Handbuilt pottery techniques revealed : the secrets of handbuilding shown in unique cutaway photography / by Atkin, Jacqui.;
Chapter 1: Coiling -- Chapter 2: Pinching -- Chapter 3: Slabbing -- Chapter 4: Molding.- Subjects: Pottery craft.;
- © 2004., Barron's Educational Series,
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- The complete potter : the complete reference to tools, materials, and techniques for all potters and ceramicists / by Mattison, Steve.;
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- Subjects: Pottery craft.;
- © 2003., Barron's,
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- Mastering raku : making ware, glazes, building kilns, firing / by Branfman, Steven.;
Raku, a low-fire pottery technique that requires quick heating and cooling of the ware, offers something that few other firing methods do: a deep and satisfying participation in the firing process itself. Mastering Raku is the definitive book on the subject: a comprehensive, hands-on, technique-based guide that encourages experimentation. Mastering Raku includes up-to-date technical and creative information, how-to photographs, new clay and glaze recipes, and contemporary inspiration.- Subjects: Pottery craft.; Raku pottery.;
- © 2012, c2009., Lark Crafts,
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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,
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- 250 tips, techniques, and trade secrets for potters / by Atkin, Jacqui.;
Describes the full range of available clays and their individual qualities, as well as necessary tools and equipment; presents easy-to-follow directions for fashioning pottery; and augments instruction with captioned, step-by-step photos, illustrations, and sidebars featuring troubleshooting tips with solutions to problems that often arise in the process of making pottery. This essential reference book also covers topics such as developing design concepts, from sketch pad to finished piece; slabbing, pinching, coiling, throwing, turning, and mold-making, using various clays; and creating surface decoration, with attention to colors, textures, and glazing.Materials, tools, and equipment -- Design -- Making techniques. Slabbing ; Pinching ; Coiling ; Throwing ; Mold making.- Subjects: Pottery craft;
- © 2009., Barron's,
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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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- 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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- 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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- Dig your hands in the dirt! : a manual for making art out of earth / by Denzer, Kiko.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125).Foreword -- section 1. Art made with mud, kids, & communities -- Sling mud at walls (Denzer, Topper, Coleman) -- Mud murals : 1st aid for ailing walls -- Up from the mud : large scale earthworks -- A Berlin mud-village (R. Warzecha) -- Neighborhood mud : 1st aid for intersections (city repair) -- Earth installations : labyrinth & sundial (Denzer) -- School & site-specific sculpture (Denzer, Toper, Coleman) -- Very small hoses (Denzer, Raduazo) -- Home : a fable (Denzer) -- Building for birds (Raduazo) -- section 2. Design as process & pattern -- Process : design as a group activity -- Pattern murals -- Finding pattern (inspiration, geometry, fitting geometry to space, 1, 2, & 3) -- Mirror images to make patterns that move -- section 3. Mud recipes -- Intro -- Finding clay soil -- Recognizing clay -- Quick & dirty "snake" test -- Slow & nerdy "shake" test -- Prep & tools -- Basic mud recipe -- Big mud for structural use : "super cob" -- Mud for walls : plaster basics -- A plaster recipe -- Putting mud on walls : "harling," & other tricks to make it stick -- Mud-drawing tricks -- Color -- Re-creation is the best preservation (waterglass,etc.) -- Concrete : casting stories in stone -- section 4. Making art, continued (how things got done) -- Slinging mud, cont'd -- The hands of volunteers, cont'd -- Berlin, cont'd -- Designing the Berlin projects / Rainer Warzecha -- City repair, cont'd -- Home, cont'd -- Building for birds, cont'd -- Labyrinth & dial, cont'd -- Measure the earth/make a labyrinth -- Find the four directions -- Planning your labyrinth -- Step by step, illustrated -- Sundial construction, illustration -- Sundials tell more than time -- Author's notes : earth, art, knowledge -- Thanks -- Contributors -- Resources -- Art & teaching -- Earthen building, technical -- Workshop providers & practitioners -- Earthen art & inspiration -- Sundials & more -- Quick catalog & order form.- Subjects: Art; Activity programs in education.; Earth construction.; Pottery craft.;
- © c2005., Hand Print Press,
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