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Ceramics for Beginners - Hand Building
by Shay Amber
Lark Books | November 2008 | ISBN-10: 1600592430 | PDF | 128 pages | 22.9 mb
http://www.amazon.com/Ceramics-Beginners-Hand-Building-Lark/dp/1600592430

Ceramics are always popular with crafters, and hand building with low-fire earthenware is a natural place to start. With its wealth of information and images, elegant design, and time-tested advice this beautiful new book by artist Shay Amber will inspire even the most intimidated beginner. Just as in her celebrated workshops, Amber guides would-be ceramists through all the basics, from selecting the right clay body to embellishing the surface with fabulous decorations and gorgeous glaze treatments to setting a firing temperature. She teaches how to pinch forms, create coils, make flat slabs, work with simple molds and armatures, and ornament your piece with stencils, slips, underglazes, terra sigillata, and more. Each technique is laid out in easy-to-follow step-by-step photos with projects in progress and stunning gallery images. Amber introduces a unique, easy-to-follow method for constructing a beautiful slab-built piece, and all the necessary templates are included. A dozen projects—including a pinched Tea Bowl, coil-built Espresso Cup Set, and luminous Lantern showcase the key methods. Comprehensive and accessible, this illustrated introduction will become the standard on the potter’s bookshelf.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHOOSING AND USING CLAY
GETTING TO KNOW THE STUDIO
• TECHNIQUE: FORMING COILS
•TECHNIQUE: MAKING SLABS
•TECHNIQUE: SLAB BUILDING
TECHNIQUE: MAKING AND USING STAMPS
• INSPIRATION
•TECHNIQUE: SURFACE DECORATION
•GLAZING
•FIRING
TEMPLATES
RECIPES
GLOSSARY
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX