An essential guide for beginner and advanced potters, featuring step-by-step photographs to guide you through a comprehensive range of techniques.
Begin making beautiful ceramics, even if you've never attempted pottery before, following detailed information about:

Essential tools and studio equipment

Different types and constituencies of clay—including earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, and raku

Forming methods—including pinching, coiling, slabbing, press molding, throwing, and trimming

Adding texture and patterns—with techniques such as sgraffito, stamping, inlaying, and burnishing

Painting and printing—using slip, banding and combing, resists, and underglazes

Glazes and post-firing techniques—including salt and soda glazes, lusters, and metal leaf

Essential technical resources—such as glaze recipes, types of kilns and firings, and health and safety tips

With its combination of practical advice, exciting images, inspirational ideas, and a glossary, this book is a must-have for all potters at any stage of their career.