An essential guide for beginner and advanced potters, featuring step-by-step photographs to guide you through a comprehensive range of techniques.

Begin making beautiful ceramics, even if you’ve never attempted pottery before, following detailed information about:

• Essential tools and studio equipment


• Different types and constituencies of clay—including earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, and raku


• Forming methods—including pinching, coiling, slabbing, press molding, throwing, and trimming


• Adding texture and patterns—with techniques such as sgraffito, stamping, inlaying, and burnishing


• Painting and printing—using slip, banding and combing, resists, and underglazes


• Glazes and post-firing techniques—including salt and soda glazes, lusters, and metal leaf


• Essential technical resources—such as glaze recipes, types of kilns and firings, and health and safety tips

With its combination of practical advice, exciting images, inspirational ideas, and a glossary, this book is a must-have for all potters at any stage of their career.