The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes

The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes

Author: John Britt

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781600592164

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"With recipes for mixing, testing, applying, and firing hundreds of high-fire glazes, this fully illustrated reference will help all ceramists gain a better understanding of glazes and the factors that make them work."--Book Jacket.


Developing Glazes

Developing Glazes

Author: Greg Daly

Publisher: Herbert Press

Published: 2018-04-05

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781912217496

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Developing your own glazes can be tricky and success is dependent on many factors. In this book, ceramicist Greg Daly aims to demystify the process with practical advice and complete, step-by-step instructions. He covers all the essentials, from planning your recipes and recording results to mixing glazes and finding the correct firing temperature. This hands-on technical guidance is supported with helpful how-to images and example tests and recipes.For any potter beginning to experiment with fired colour, texture and decoration in their work, Developing Glazes is an essential reference, revealing workable, exciting methods for achieving the glaze results you want.


Dry Glazes

Dry Glazes

Author: Jeremy Jernegan

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-11-30

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 071367671X

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A comprehensive guide to understanding and using dry glazes on ceramic works.


Stoneware Glazes

Stoneware Glazes

Author: Ian Currie

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13:

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Provides a framework for examining, testing, and understanding glaze technology.


Glazes for the Contemporary Maker

Glazes for the Contemporary Maker

Author: Louisa Taylor

Publisher: The Crowood Press

Published: 2023-09-08

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0719842417

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Quite simply, everything you need to know about glazes. Glazes for the Contemporary Maker is an essential guide for all ceramic artists and potters looking to expand their knowledge and gain confidence in this dynamic area of ceramics practice. The book provides a holistic approach and serves as an introduction to glaze chemistry, materials knowledge and methods of application via detailed step-by-step guidance and informative text. Packed with over 200 illustrated glaze recipes, it is an indispensable reference, which covers everything from shiny, opaque, matt, crystalline to special effect glazes that span across the temperature ranges. Supported by impressive examples of work by leading practitioners, this book provides inspiration and a source of practical tips and advice, allowing you to learn and initiate your own creative path through this exciting subject.


Macro-crystalline Glazes

Macro-crystalline Glazes

Author: Peter Ilsley

Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Macro-crystalline glazes present one of the most difficult challenges a potter can face. In this book, Peter Ilsley reveals his own research and techniques, whilst 13 other potters tell how they have met the challenge of crystals.


Colour in Glazes

Colour in Glazes

Author: Linda Bloomfield

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-01-13

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1789941172

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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.


Techniques Using Slips

Techniques Using Slips

Author: John Mathieson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-04-30

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1408106264

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Covers a wide range of ways to use slips to decorate ceramic works, illustrated with contemporary examples.