pottery

A guide to techniques for embellishing clay that discusses integrating textures, faceting, fluting, working with slip, impressing, sprigging, incising, transferring an image, resist etching, glazing, firing, and more; and includes a gallery of work.

Offers advice on how to purchase and use an extruder, a machine that is used to form clay tubes; presents illustrated, step-by-step instructions for ten pojects, each highlighting a different technique; and includes seventy-five die templates that provide options for extruding clay forms.

Presents color-illustrated, step-by-step instructions for designing, making, and decorating flat and relief tiles, discussing installation, mosaics, tools and equipment, and other related topics.

Photographs and text place the practical nature of throwing pots into a wider context, offering an examination of some historical examples which provide a background for study and analyzing throwing as a language of expression, exploring ideas, how they originate and the way artists develop them.

Guide to working in clay with step-by-step instructions for handbuilding, wheel-throwing, and plasterwork, decoration, different types of clays, glazing, and firing, and providing a historical overview of ceramics.

Provides instruction in the processes and techniques of creating ceramics and presents directions for a number of projects.

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

Describes an approach to designing and working in clay using low temperature firing methods and decorating techniques, and includes a variety of color and black-and-white illustrations.

Examines the basics of pottery-making, discussing clays, tools, glazes, color, and firing; and features illustrated, step-by-step instructions for twenty projects, each of which demonstrates a different pottery technique or style.