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Mastering Raku
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Our Price: $23.96 | 20%
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2009 176 pages Hardcover with Jacket all in
color | | From
firing to finishing, this is the definitive reference on raku. Ceramists
will be informed and inspired by this newly updated, technique-based book
with how-to photos and text. It covers such topics as types of clay,
forming techniques, firing, glazes, decoration, and kilns and kiln
construction. Mastering Raku also includes a gallery of works from
around the world along with updated clay and glaze recipes. Steve
Branfman is one of the leading Raku artists in the field today. |
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Low-Firing and Burnishing
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Our Price: $19.96 | 20%
off | | Sumi von Dassow | | | Because
low-firing is the most basic of all ceramic techniques, it really treats
all your senses. Using just about the lowest possible technical setting,
you submit your work to flames and smoke giving you a sense of what the
ancients felt when they used fire to create their primitive works. Both
ancient cultures and contemporary potters have used low-firing to great
effect, adding slips and burnishing pieces to create finishes not possible
with any other firing method. Whether using an old garbage can, a pit in
the ground, or a bonfire, low-firing is accessible to anyone with an
outdoor space. Low-firing and Burnishing provides step-by-step
practical information focusing on various approaches to low firing and
methods for creating natural finishes. Covers burnishing, burnishing
with terra sigillata, pit firing, saggar firing, horsehair firing and
naked raku. |
| Raku: Investigations
Into Fire
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| David Jones |
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There is a marrying of ideas, process, and action in Raku that creates
some of the most exciting forms of contemporary clay art. Raku:
Investigations into Fire is a comprehensive study of this popular
ceramic process. Its history is traced from its earliest beginnings in
Japanese ritual to current preoccupations dealing with the relationship
of clay, artist, and fire. The history of Raku provides a framework for
understanding the most recent developments in materials and technology,
while an analysis of design illuminates the ways in which new ideas are
developed. There is also an extensive examination of the methods of
generating the rich and seductive surfaces, as well as the most recent
innovations in technology and process-all beautifully illustrated with
200 fine color photographs. This is an ideal book for both the beginner
and the experienced practitioner. |
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Alternative Kilns & Firing Techniques
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Our Price: $23.96 | 20%
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May 28, 2004 128 pages | |
Ceramicists searching for new ways to fire their creations now have a
wealth of options. Authors James Watkins and Paul Wandless, along with a
group of distinguished artisans, demonstrate in detail how to build
low-cost, low-tech, yet high-quality kilns. These clever devices make it
possible to produce rich surface effects from alternative reduction firing
techniques. In addition to showing the basic procedures for using each
kiln, easy-to-follow directions for many fast-fire methods unfold in color
photographs: youll see how to achieve terra sigillata surfaces with
direct chemical application, and how to do traditional crackle-glaze raku
and smoke finishes. |
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Fire new!
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Our Price: $23.96 | 20%
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2007 softcover 1-57498-167-6 | | Soda
glazing is a relatively new development in ceramic history, with exciting
scope for research and experimentation. It is a more popular ceramic
practice, particularly in the U.S., where it is widely taught in college
ceramics departments and workshops, and has attracted a high number or
professional practitioners. Few people have explored the potential for
serious engagement of soda vapor with clay bodies, the dynamics of
atmosphere during firing and cooling, and the unique aesthetic potential
of soda in its own right. This book aims to meet the demand for more
advanced technical knowledge of materials and process and more innovative
approaches to soda glazing. |
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Raku
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Our Price: $21.56 | 20%
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Mathieson | |
Raku has long been a popular technique amongst
potters. There is an
excitement about standing around a fire, watching pots heat, the smoking
sawdust, and finally the tense expectancy of seeing the final result.
The very uncertainty of the results is one of the things that draws
so many potters to raku. In this book John Mathieson discussed the
clays and glazes that are suitable for this technique.
He also discusses kilns and burners, and firing and post-firing
reduction. Along the way he
takes a look at the work that is being done in this field by an
international group of artists. The
result is a handy and inspirational guide to this most exciting of firing
methods.
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Soda Glazing
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| 96 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 20
color,70 b/w illus.
Paper 1995 | ISBN 0-8122-1571-0 | | Ruthanne Tudball | | Soda
Glazing is fast becoming a popular firing technique, because it produces
the popular "orange-peel" texture commonly associated with salt
glazed ware, but without the sodium chloride vapor. In addition to
being more environmentally friendly, Soda Glazing also produces more
subtle colors than traditional salt glazing. Covers glaze recipes,
kiln building, application and firing techniques. |
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Firing: Journeys and Techniques
A Collection of Articles from Ceramics Monthly
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List Price: $28.95 | 20%
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Our Price: $23.16 |
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color images throughout | | Ceramics
Monthly | | For many potters, wood is
more than just a source of heat for a kiln, it is a process. Wood firing
can provide a link for ceramic artists to their surroundings and to
potteryıs beginnings thousands of years ago. This new handbook shares the
experiences of individual potters who have sought to reconnect with a
basic technology in our hi-tech society and who want to explore and master
all the possible variables that this technique provides for the creative
process. This book describes some of the technical, safety, and physical
challenges of wood firing through first-hand accounts and interviews with
potters. These are their personal stories, and in telling them, they share
their lessons learned and much of their technical knowledge. |
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