250 Tips, Techniques, and Trade Secrets for Potters: The Indispensable Compendium of Essential Knowledge and Troubleshooting Tip,New

Both amateur and professional potters constantly seek timesaving tips, trade secrets, and new technical knowledgewhich makes this handsomely illustrated book exactly what they're looking for! Author Jacqui Atkin describes the full range of available clays and their individual qualities, as well as necessary tools and equipment. She presents easytofollow directions for fashioning pottery, and augments her instruction with captioned, stepbystep photos and illustrations. Topics explained in detail coverDeveloping design concepts, from sketch pad to finished piece Slabbing, pinching, coiling, throwing, turning, and moldmaking, using various clays Creating surface decoration, with attention to colors, textures, and glazingHelpful sidebar features include troubleshooting tips with solutions to problems that often arise in the process of making pottery. Here is a book that belongs on the reference shelf of every serious potter. Approximately 450 color illustrations.