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250 tips, techniques, and trade secrets for potters / Jacqui Atkin.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Hauppauge, NY : Barron's, 2009Edition: First edition for the U.S., its territories and dependencies, and CanadaDescription: 160 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9780764141164 (pbk.)
  • 0764141163 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Two hundred fifty tips, techniques, and trade secrets for potters
  • Two hundred and fifty tips, techniques, and trade secrets for potters
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 738.1/2 23
LOC classification:
  • TT920 .A79 2009
Contents:
Materials, tools, and equipment -- Design -- Making techniques. Slabbing ; Pinching ; Coiling ; Throwing ; Mold making.
Summary: Describes the full range of available clays and their individual qualities, as well as necessary tools and equipment; presents easy-to-follow directions for fashioning pottery; and augments instruction with captioned, step-by-step photos, illustrations, and sidebars featuring troubleshooting tips with solutions to problems that often arise in the process of making pottery. This essential reference book also covers topics such as developing design concepts, from sketch pad to finished piece; slabbing, pinching, coiling, throwing, turning, and mold-making, using various clays; and creating surface decoration, with attention to colors, textures, and glazing.
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Books John Tomay Memorial Library ANF 738.1 ATK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31030100036946

Includes index.

Materials, tools, and equipment -- Design -- Making techniques. Slabbing ; Pinching ; Coiling ; Throwing ; Mold making.

Describes the full range of available clays and their individual qualities, as well as necessary tools and equipment; presents easy-to-follow directions for fashioning pottery; and augments instruction with captioned, step-by-step photos, illustrations, and sidebars featuring troubleshooting tips with solutions to problems that often arise in the process of making pottery. This essential reference book also covers topics such as developing design concepts, from sketch pad to finished piece; slabbing, pinching, coiling, throwing, turning, and mold-making, using various clays; and creating surface decoration, with attention to colors, textures, and glazing.

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