Ceramics: The Indispensable Guide - Softcover

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A comprehensive and ambitious workshop reference for amateur, student and professional ceramicists

Illustrated with more than 500 color photographs and illustrations, this comprehensive workshop reference brings together a vast range of skills, techniques and technical data in one volume to provide an essential look-it-up resource The book is organized into eight parts with 63 topic chapters on creating ceramic work and running a professional workshop

The book includes:

1 Materials, Tools, and Process -- The raw material clay, varieties available and uses; directory of equipment and tools with skill level ratings; making a "beginner's kit"; setting up a workshop; health and safety; overview of the ceramic process
2 Forming Techniques -- Forming techniques, from hand-building to wheel-throwing, lathe and whirler turning; computer-aided design; order of work
3 Prefiring Surface Decoration -- Color and texture, including slip, direct screen printing, burnishing
4 Firing -- Choosing a kiln; options from electric kilns to experimental processes; kiln diagrams
5 Glazing -- Protecting ceramic surfaces, glaze recipes and application methods
6 Post-glaze Surface Decoration -- Screen and digital printing, enamels, lusters, and more
7 Design -- Finding inspiration and recording it in a technical drawing which others can use
8 Professional Practice -- Setting up a studio, pricing, photography, promotion, exhibiting, commissions

Ceramics: The Indispensable Guide is a comprehensive and valuable resource for ceramicists at all levels

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