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A comprehensive, practical guide to developing, testing, applying and firing your own glazes.

This book explains how to collect materials to make your own glazes. It gives practical instructions about sourcing and harvesting material from your local environment, mixing a glaze, testing samples, applying the glaze, and firing the work.

A complete guide to achieving a fantastic spectrum of colourful glazes for the studio potter,

From simple pots to more complex vessels, this book features clear instructions on forming every object, accompanied by step-by-step images. It also profiles the work of contemporary potters for whom throwing is a vital part of their practice. Throwing is an essential volume for anyone attempting to master forming pots on the wheel.

Building on the success of her previous Ceramics Handbook Paperclay, pioneering artist, researcher and teacher Rosette Gault explains how potters and clay sculptors can make, fire and use paperclay. In addition to the basics, she introduces more advanced techniques for building armatures, sculpting figures and making works for the wall.

This book is an introduction to the use of additions in clay bodies, from hard materials like stones and glass to combustible matter, fibre, metals and colour. It looks at the work of a range of contemporary international makers who are using additions.

This book is aimed at those in ceramics who wish to move into print andtransfers. Printmaking allows reproduction of bothphotographic and `hand drawn' imagery, pattern and text onto thesurface of two and three-dimensional ceramic objects through the creation of transfers.

In this new third edition, Paul Scott explains the history of printed ceramics and explores photographic processes, as well as digital and 3D printing. Illustrated with brand new images of works by leading artists, Ceramics and Print is a must-read guide for artists and makers in the field.