pottery craft

Presents color-illustrated, step-by-step instructions for designing, making, and decorating flat and relief tiles, discussing installation, mosaics, tools and equipment, and other related topics.

A beginner's guide to ceramic surfaces, glazes, and firing that covers safety, tools, materials, and techniques; provides instructions for impressing, stamping, paddling, combing, slip inlay, brushwork with underglaze, staining, reglazing, and more; and includes galleries of works.

A visit to a pottery shop and the encouragement of family and friends not only provide Aspen the opportunity to paint something beautiful, they also help her get past her writer's block.

Examines the basics of pottery-making, discussing clays, tools, glazes, color, and firing; and features illustrated, step-by-step instructions for twenty projects, each of which demonstrates a different pottery technique or style.

A guide to working with clay, tracing the history of ceramics; presenting examples of contemporary American clayworks; describing and illustrating various forming and decorating techniques; examining the principles of ceramic design; and discussing safety and marketing.

Step-by-step instructions show how to use different types of clay and acrylic paints to create original craft projects.

Introduces the materials, tools, and techniques needed for creating objects from clay such as pots, tiles, figures, and bowls.