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Handbuilt Ceramics : Pinching, Coiling, Extruding, Molding, Slip Casting, Slab Work

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Softcover - 160 pages (September 1997)
Kathy Triplet
Handbuilding techniques can result in almost limitless possibilities.  Whether you've longed to make functional dinnerware or gigantic clay sculpture, teapots for collectors or decorative tiles for friends, the world of handbuilding awaits you.  Handbuilt Ceramics is written for beginners and experts alike.  You'll start by learning how to set up a workshop and gather tools, select a clay and shape it, and decorate and fire what you make.  Then the authoir will guild you carefully through a series of step-by-step projects: a basic pinch pot, coiled planter, slip-cast pitcher, press-molded relief tile, and more.  Each project comes with helpful how-to photos.  Also an excellent text for students.

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Ceramics Class Series: Handbuilding Techniques

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64 pages, 450 color photos, 9 1/2 x 9 1/2"
Joaquim Chavarria
Step by step photographic sequences demonstrate a variety of techniques while clearly written text guides the reader.  Individually, each book in the series is an excelled introduction to a specific area in ceramics while all three books together create a comprehensive introduction to ceramics as a whole.  Handbuilding Techniques covers pinch pots, building with coils, building with strips, building with slabs, and building with large chunks of clay.  Four projects are illustrated per category to fully demonstrate each technique.  Other books in the series Throwing Techniques, Glazing Techniques

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Clay: Handbuilding

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88 pages, 168 b&2 illustrations.  8.5x10".
Maurice Sapiro
Create beautiful pots by hand, using the time-honored techniques of coil, pinch, slab and others, with easy-to-follow instructions for every procedure and step-by-step photos.

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Art of Handbuilt Ceramics

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Susan Bruce

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Handbuilding

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128 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 120 color illus.
Paper 2000 | ISBN 0-8122-1755-1
Michael Hardy
In this book, Michael Hardy looks at the traditional handbuilding methods--pinching, coiling, slab building, and pressmolding--and explains how to do them. For many years these methods were eclipsed by throwing on a potter's wheel which came to dominate as a making method. However, in the past 30 years handbuilding has once again become a preferred technique among ceramic artists. These artists are engaged in exploring the creative possibilities that handbuilding offers, experimenting fully with and combining techniques in an effort to achieve their artistic vision. The results have brought forth some of the most exciting ceramics today.  "A ceramics handbook that would be a perfect choice for any art school. . . . This introduction to techniques covers everything from construction to controlling drying and slab building and is an excellent guide for ceramic artists interested in the revitalized art of handbuilding." --Bookwatch

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