The potter's studio clay & glaze handbook : an essential guide to choosing, working, and designing with clay and glaze in the ceramic studio
(2009)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
738.1/ZAMEK,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 738.1/ZAMEK,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Beverly, Mass. : Quarry Books, 2009
DESCRIPTION

176 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781592535224, 1592535224
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

Additional Titles