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Hand Building, Sculpting & Tiles |
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The art of shaping clay by hand has a long tradition, paralleling the history of humanity. Hand built ceramic utensils for household purposes date back to Neolithic civilizations. Neither the invention of the potter's wheel nor six thousand years of use has rendered the craft obsolete. It is also a craft that requires minimal equipment. | Clay: Handbuilding
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Have you ever imagined plunging your bare hands into a block of cool, moist clay? Pinching or coiling it? Smoothing or incising it? Burnishing or glazing it? Gradually transforming it into an elegant vase, beautiful platter, abstract sculpture, or distinctive tile? Let this book show you how. You'll find: basic handbuilding techniques, coiling, pinching, extruding, molding, slip casting, and working with clay slabs. | Handbuilt Ceramics
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This volume begins with the modeling of cubes, cones,
spheres, and other basic volumes. Students then learn coiling, pinching,
using strips, slabs, and lumps and how to apply them to bowls, bottles,
cups, boxes, and sculpture, with information on kilns, firing, and
finishing processes included. Joaquim Chavarria, a professor of ceramics and sculpture at the Escuela Massana in Barcelona, Spain, is also the author of the best-selling The Big Book of Ceramics. |
Ceramics Class: Hand-Building Techniques
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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. A dozen projects—including a pinched Tea Bowl, coil-built Espresso Cup Set, and luminous Lantern showcase the key methods. | Ceramics for Beginners: Hand Building
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This complete, classic guide for ceramicists details the full range of tools, forming methods, processes, and possibilities for anyone working without a potter’s wheel. Chapters cover everything from the basics, including common terminology, firing, mixing, reprocessing, and wedging, to advanced techniques such as surface treatments, joining, and creating lidded, composite, and large forms. Clay-body and glaze recipes, plus more than 250 black-and-white illustrations. Let crafters everywhere express themselves fully in clay. |
Handbuilding Ceramic Forms
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This handy full-color reference guides sculptors through enhancing any sculpture with dramatic surface effects and finishes. The Sculptor's Bible covers everything from selecting surfaces, carving wood and modeling clay to utilizing various surface techniques to create stunning pieces. More than 400 detailed color photos demonstrate techniques and surfaces, while introduction sections provide background about various surfaces including stone, wood, cement and more. Sculptors of all experience levels will benefit from the instruction outline (tools used, preparation steps, materials needed and step-by-step treatment procedure) included for each style of treatment. |
The Sculptor's Bible
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Initial contact with clay is often haphazard-- idle fingering and pushing until some sort of recognizable image appears. Starting with basic clay manipulation, each succeeding chapter builds upon the previous one to present techniques logically and methodically. Many picture sequences are presented to give the impression that you are actually performing the process yourself. | Sculpting Clay
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From press-molded pieces to carved works showcasing spectacular surface treatments, these magnificent tiles will inspire beginners and professionals, as well as collectors and enthusiasts. Some of the larger handcrafted displays here were made to decorate public and private spaces; others use single tiles to interpret nature, tell a story, or make a bold cultural observation. |
500 Tiles
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In Extruder, Mold & Tile: Forming Techniques potters will discover a wealth of information, techniques, and inspiration on topics that span the usual to the unusual as well as the functional to the sculptural. Molds have been used since nearly the dawn of ceramics beginning with the making of pots inside baskets. The advent of the extruder centuries ago has also served to benefit the artist in many ways, facilitating work that cannot be done easily, or at all, on the wheel or by hand. With tilemaking, ceramic artists find the two-dimensional aspect of claywork challenging and create astonishing works with both traditional and nontraditional forming methods. |
Extruder, Mold & Tile
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With more than 70,000 copies sold, Lark's Handmade Tiles and its beautiful ideas have delighted crafters everywhere, and whetted their appetites for more. They'll find just what they're looking for in these dozen ceramic tile projects, which include everything from trivets to tabletops to stepping stones. The wealth of practical, visually breathtaking information covered here includes everything from design and formation through decoration and site installation, making this manual an absolute must in every ceramics and home improvement library. | Making
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From pinch pots to dinnerware, you'll find it all in the great clay adventure. This collection of innovative, hands-on activities provides springboards for group and individual creativity. The step-by-step instruction and careful sequence of activities lead teacher and students from the simplest clay techniques to challenging works of art. | The Great Clay Adventure
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