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Special Effect Glazes

by Linda Bloomfield

23,85€ + 10% CARD

 A complete guide to fantastic special effects glazes for studio potters. From drippy and crackle to ash and lichen glazes, experienced ceramicist Linda Bloomfield guides you through the world of special effect glazes. Beautifully illustrated with pieces from both emerging and established potters that showcase stunning copper oxide-blues, metallic bronzes and manganese-pink crystal glazes, Special Effect Glazes is packed full of recipes to try out: from functional oilspot glazes using iron oxide, to explosive lava glazes. In this informative handbook discover how you can create these fantastic effects and learn the basic chemistry behind glazes in order to adjust and experiment with your unique pieces. Discussed are materials and stains, how to find them and how they affect the colour and texture of the glaze, alongside practical fixes to familiar glaze-making problems. Special Effect Glazes is essential if you are interested in creating eye-catching glazes and wanting to develop your knowledge of glaze-making, or experiment with your own formulas to achieve the perfect finish.
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Exploring Crystalline Glazes

by Diane Creber

~~33,80€~~ 30,42€ 10% OFF

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 Prepare to be dazzled by this contemporary guide to the art of crystalline glazing.
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Luminous Clay - Working With Bone China And Porcelain Paperclay

by Angela Mellor

~~33,80€~~ 30,42€ 10% OFF

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 A contemporary guide to creating beautiful, translucent ceramics.
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Throwing Clay - The Art Of Making Pottery On The Wheel

by Rebecca Proctor

~~33,80€~~ 30,42€ 10% OFF

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 With this essential guide from one of the UKâ€™s leading contemporary studio potters, learn how to throw clay on the wheel.
Ceramics: A Green Approach

by Kevin Millward

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 From extracting clay to exporting your work, this is a practical guide to producing unique ceramic pieces with minimal environmental impact.
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Colour In Glazes

by Linda Bloomfield

23,85€ + 10% CARD

 An essential handbook for studio potters working towards achieving a fantastic spectrum of colourful glazes. Colour in Glazes teaches you all the methods for achieving colour in glazes, focusing on colouring oxides in detail, including the newly available rare earth oxides. Find out about the types of base glazes and the fluxes used to make them in relation to colour response as well as using colouring oxides to achieve depth and variety of colour, rather than resorting to commercial ceramic stains. Discover the practical aspects of mixing, applying, testing and adjusting glazes, and explore a large section of test tiles and glaze recipes for use on white earthenware, stoneware and porcelain fired in electric, gas and salt kilns. This new edition, fully updated and revised, contains advances in technology and new discoveries in the Periodic Table. It is an infallible handbook to achieving the colour you want, and to help you broaden your palette.
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Colour In Glazes

by Linda Bloomfield

23,85€ + 10% CARD

 An essential handbook for studio potters working towards achieving a fantastic spectrum of colourful glazes. Colour in Glazes teaches you all the methods for achieving colour in glazes, focusing on colouring oxides in detail, including the newly available rare earth oxides. Find out about the types of base glazes and the fluxes used to make them in relation to colour response as well as using colouring oxides to achieve depth and variety of colour, rather than resorting to commercial ceramic stains. Discover the practical aspects of mixing, applying, testing and adjusting glazes, and explore a large section of test tiles and glaze recipes for use on white earthenware, stoneware and porcelain fired in electric, gas and salt kilns. This new edition, fully updated and revised, contains advances in technology and new discoveries in the Periodic Table. It is an infallible handbook to achieving the colour you want, and to help you broaden your palette.
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Surface Decoration

by Kevin Millward

29,81€ + 10% CARD

 A practical guide to all forms of decoration for pots and sculpture. This step-by-step guide encourages you to explore the full range of surface treatment techniques and teaches you how to obtain a professional finish to your work by suggesting an appropriate finish choice. Surface Decoration looks at all manner of surface decoration techniques, at every stage of the ceramic process and from a practical perspective explains how to achieve these effects. The book explores a variety of innovative and contemporary approaches to surface finish including sgrafitto, resist methods, sprigging, trailing, glaze layering, lustre, transfer, impressing, incising and textural methods amongst others. This is the perfect guide for any ceramic artist interested in exploring new surface decoration techniques.
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Sustainable Ceramics - A Practical Approach

by Robert Harrison

29,81€ + 10% CARD

 An essential resource for ceramicists, studios or schools looking for inspiration to reclaim, reuse and recycle in their studio or work. Producing work that is not only beautifully designed and produced, but is also environmentally friendly and socially responsible is now more important than ever. In Sustainable Ceramics, pioneer Robert Harrison draws on more than four decades of making, and a wealth of experience shared by other artists to present you with a range of practical possibilities. This book presents you all the factors to consider when going ''green'', from fuels and alternative firing technology to energy-saving methods, sustainable ways to collect and use clay itself, and ways to deal with or recycle your waste materials and save water. He suggests simple and achievable methods by which to reduce the carbon footprint of your ceramic art, and draws on interviews and examples by practitioners who reclaim, reuse and recycle in their studio or work.
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Sustainable Ceramics - A Practical Approach

by Robert Harrison

29,81€ + 10% CARD

 An essential resource for ceramicists, studios or schools looking for inspiration to reclaim, reuse and recycle in their studio or work. Producing work that is not only beautifully designed and produced, but is also environmentally friendly and socially responsible is now more important than ever. In Sustainable Ceramics, pioneer Robert Harrison draws on more than four decades of making, and a wealth of experience shared by other artists to present you with a range of practical possibilities. This book presents you all the factors to consider when going ''green'', from fuels and alternative firing technology to energy-saving methods, sustainable ways to collect and use clay itself, and ways to deal with or recycle your waste materials and save water. He suggests simple and achievable methods by which to reduce the carbon footprint of your ceramic art, and draws on interviews and examples by practitioners who reclaim, reuse and recycle in their studio or work.
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Ceramic Transfer Printing

by Kevin Petrie

29,81€ + 10% CARD

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

by Kevin Petrie

29,81€ + 10% CARD

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

by Linda Bloomfield

23,85€ + 10% CARD

 A complete guide to fantastic special effects glazes for studio potters. From drippy and crackle to ash and lichen glazes, experienced ceramicist Linda Bloomfield guides you through the world of special effect glazes. Beautifully illustrated with pieces from both emerging and established potters that showcase stunning copper oxide-blues, metallic bronzes and manganese-pink crystal glazes, Special Effect Glazes is packed full of recipes to try out: from functional oilspot glazes using iron oxide, to explosive lava glazes. In this informative handbook discover how you can create these fantastic effects and learn the basic chemistry behind glazes in order to adjust and experiment with your unique pieces. Discussed are materials and stains, how to find them and how they affect the colour and texture of the glaze, alongside practical fixes to familiar glaze-making problems. Special Effect Glazes is essential if you are interested in creating eye-catching glazes and wanting to develop your knowledge of glaze-making, or experiment with your own formulas to achieve the perfect finish.
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Ceramics And Print

by Paul Scott

33,80€ + 10% CARD

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 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.
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Paperclay - Art And Practice

by Rosette Gault

31,08€ + 10% CARD

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 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.
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Natural Glazes - Collecting And Making

by Miranda Forrest

27,04€ + 10% CARD

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 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.
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Throwing

by Richard Phethean

33,80€ + 10% CARD

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 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.
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Additions To Clay Bodies

by Kathleen Standen

27,04€ + 10% CARD

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 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.
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Surface Decoration

by Kevin Millward

26,50€ + 10% CARD

 This step-by-step guide will encourage the reader to explore the full range of surface treatment techniques and help them to give a professional finish to their work by guiding them to an appropriate finish choice. Surface Decoration looks at all manner of surface decoration techniques, at every stage of the ceramic process and from a practical perspective explains how to achieve these effects. The book explores a variety of innovative and contemporary approaches to surface finish, including sgrafitto, resist methods, sprigging, trailing, glaze layering, lustre, transfer, impressing, incising and textural methods amongst others. This is the perfect guide for any ceramic artist interested in exploring new surface decoration techniques.
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Special Effect Glazes

by Linda Bloomfield

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Colour In Glazes

by Linda Bloomfield

27,04€ + 10% CARD

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Sustainable Ceramics - A Practical Approach

by Robert Harrison

33,80€ + 10% CARD

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Porcelain

by Vivienne Foley

29,73€ + 10% CARD

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Firing Kilns

by Benedict Brierley

43,25€ + 10% CARD

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