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BOOKS The following is only a selection of the extensive collection of new and used books offered by ClayPeople. If you are looking for a book not listed here, give us a call. We may have it, and if not, we can help you track it down. GENERAL/HOW TO/MISC. TITLES
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Potters Directory of Shape and Form - French $20.00 Page after page of shapes, profiles, and forms. Lots of color photos. Wonderfully useful resource book
A Potter’s Workbook - Illian $24.95 A textbook for the hand and the mind. This book will provide a way to see, to make, Spirit of Clay - Piepenburg $49.95 and to think about the forms of wheel- A technical as well as personal handbook thrown vessels and guide by the author of “raku Pottery.” Materials, clay forming, glazes, Big Book of Ceramics - Chavarria kilns, firing, health. It is educational and $35.00 inspirational. Clear text and over 700 excellent color photos cover history, materials forming TECHNICAL; CLAY, GLAZE, KILNS techniques, firing, glazing and more. Ash Glazes - Rogers $45.00 Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook How to make and use ash glazes plus a Nelson $76.95 Probably the most popular college text. survey of some of the leading ash glaze potters and their work. 150 photos, 50 Very competent and well illustrated. in color. Ceramics: A World Guide to Traditional Building Your Own Kiln - Itabashi Techniques - Sentance $45.00 The first worldwide survey of traditional ce- $25.00 ramics including raw materials, techniques, Three veteran Japanese potters share the knowledge and experience they have types of decoration, and uses. gained from constructing their own kilns. Ceramics: Sculptural Materials in the Ceramic Spectrum - Hopper $48.00 Classroom - Clough $21.79 A guide aimed at primary school teachers Auto and house paint as glaze ingredients? who want to use a range of three-dimen- You bet! A study of the development of color in glazes. All types, temp. ranges and sional materials with young children. styles. A terrific book with many photos. Ceramics, Mastering the Craft - Zakin The Ceramic Surface - Ostermann $39.95 Excellent handbook covering a variety $49.95 of areas by the author of Electric Kiln An exploration of the ceramic surface -- focusing on the vessel and the platter Ceramics. -- that includes the non-functional, the Ceramics: Shape and Surface metaphoric, the narrative, and event he Wilson $29.95 sculptural. A collection of handouts and teaching materials covering ideas, glazes, firing Ceramics and Print - Scott $26.50 techniques, and studio tips from Lana Complete study of printing techniques on Wilson. ceramics. 70 photos and a load of info.
Complete Potters Companion - Birks $29.95 A wonderful book offering lots of informaSTUDIO POTTER tion and encouragement to all students of clay. 440 color photos. Technique, process $30.00 history, it’s all here.
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Naked Clay: Ceramics Without Glaze - Perryman $49.95 A presentation of the finished ceramics and techniques of an international group of artists with an investigation their ideas and areas of inspiration.
Clay and Glazes for the Potter Rhodes $39.95 The classic text. Copper Red Glazes - Tichane $25.00 Revised version of Reds, Reds, Copper Reds. Updated text and color photos. Get it!
Hand Formed Ceramics - Zakin $39.95 The latest from this well known teacher, potter, and writer. Well illustrated volume on Glazes and Glazing Techniques hand building from around the world. Daly $41.95 Another potters approach to glazes. A Illustrated Dictionary of Practical variety of techniques, very well illustrated. Pottery - Fournier $39.95 It will expand your repertoire! Full of useful information on all aspects of pottery making. Very worth while referGlazes Cone 6 - Bailey $27.50 ence. A survey of different glazes, including special effects, glaze stains, and underglaze Large Scale Ceramics - Robison colors, giving recipes and tips to ensure $29.95 Ceramics Handbook Series. General success. overview of really big ceramics projects. Murals, on site projects, using a factory, technical notes and more.
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Glazes I Use - Coleman $24.00 A collection of Tom Coleman’s best current high fire reduction glazes. Clear descriptions. 58 glaze recipes and 12 recipes for oxides and pigments. The Kiln Book - Olsen The book on kiln design.
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Coiled Pottery: Traditional and Contemporary Ways - Blandino $27.99 Guides readers through the creation process-from starting the pot and adding the base to decoration methods and firing variables.
Large Scale Ceramics - Robison $29.99 Encyclopedia Of Sculpting Techniques A how-to for adapting traditional ceramic Plowman $14.95 methods to large scale pieces. Materials, tools, processes, finished works are all here in all color. Very clear and Potters Complete Book of Clay and concise. Excellent intro to sculpture techGlazes - Chappell $50.00 niques. Absolutely the most extensive collection of recipes, charts, and materials listing Hand Built Ceramics - Waller $24.95 there is. Very complete and well illustrated. Potters Dictionary of Materials and Techniques - Hammer $59.95 New 5th edition! Simply the best ceramics reference book available.
Sculptural Ceramics - Gregory $35.00 This is a useful and practical text on the subject. Color and b&w photos, well done.
Potters Palette - Constant, Ogden $29.95 A practical reference of oxides and stains used in a variety of base glazes. Excellent introduction to glaze formulation and creative use. Over 700 individual colors are illustrated in all color photos.
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Raku: A Practical Approach Branfman $29.95 The most complete source of information on raku anywhere. Detailed instructions on kilns, firing, combustion, recipes, aesthetics, history and more. For beginners as well as advanced potters. 200 photos and illustrations, 24 in color.
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Art of Mosaics - Chavarria $30.00 Excellent beginners handbook covering all of the essentials. History, material, equipment, cutting and layering techniques are all covered. 10 step by step projects are included covering a variety of methods. Handcrafted Ceramic Tiles - Fanning, Jones $25.00 Very complete basic guide for the beginner to tile making. Well organized, good information, excellent illustrations.
INDIVIDUAL POTTERS 500 Cups : Ceramic Explorations of Utility & Grace - Lark $24.95 500 extraordinary works of art. Every one is a treat for the eye. Ceramics - Ways of Creation - Zakin $40.00 36 Ceramic artists share the way they create through insightful stories and illustrations of their work. Among the potters included are Rick Hrsh, Andrea Gill, Bruce Cochrane, Ron Roy, Eva Kwong, Wayne Higby, John Neely, and Harris Deller. Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Life and Art of Beatrice Wood - Clark $35.00 Wood’s incomparable ceramic forms are presented in photographs of exceptional beauty and clarity and biographical photographs document her friendships with fellow artists. Pottery, Politics, Art: George Ohr and the Brothers Kirkpatrick - Mohr $60.00 Exploring the nature of spectacle, bodies, and boundaries through the medium of clay.
Hand Made Tiles - Pozo $24.95 Wonderfully illustrated with loads of color, Sawdust Firing - Hessenberg $28.95 the expert text will guide you confidently SCULPTING Introduction to the process of sawdust through the details of tile making. The Figure in Fired Clay - Blandino firing. Methods and ideas are presented through the work of different potters. Full Making & Installing Handmade Tiles $39.95 A look at how artists from all over the color photos. Pozo $24.95 Everything from design and formation world have modeled the human form in ceramics Single Firing, The Pros and Cons through decoration and site installation. Tristram $19.97 Complete hand book on the subject cov- DECORATION/MOLDMAKING Paper Clay For Ceramic Sculpto ering all the necessary areas. Very good Gault $26.50 as an introduction and guide to experi- The Clay Lover’s Guide to Making Answers all your questions about the use of mentation. Molds - Clayton $24.95 this material and forming technique. All the info you need to create plaster Stoneware Glazes: A Systematic molds, then use them to produce multiples EASTERN POTTERY Approach - Currie $38.00 of your favorite pieces. Gain a thorough understanding of glaze Japanese Pottery Handbook calculation and formation. The best of Mold Making for Ceramics - Frith Simpson $19.95 its kind. $39.95 The most comprehensive book on mold A delightful book translating all kinds of pottery terminology and reference terms in Thrown Pottery Techniques Revealed making. Japanese and English. Great to Chappelhow $29.950 This comprehensive guide takes the mystery Resists and Mold masking Techniques have in your library and fun to read. out of throwing clay by revealing in step- - Beard $26.50 by-step demonstrations precisely what is A variety of approaches are explained happening at each point in the throwing including various waxes, tapes, slips, sprayprocess. ing, acid etching, sandblasting, lustre, and smoke. Good illustrations. Wood Fired Stoneware And Porcelain Troy $34.95 Slip Casting - Wardell $26.00 The long awaited book by the author of Very competent handbook covering most of Salt Glazed Ceramics, this is the treatise what you need to know about casting ceon the subject. Lots of info, photos, and ramics; tools and material, plasters, molds, inspiration. model making, bone china and more. Page revised May 2015
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