| Glazes from Natural Sources: A Working Handbook for Potters (Ceramics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Brian Sutherland
Creator: Nigel Wood
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 233127
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0713647558
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9780713647556
ASIN: 0713647558
Publication Date: October 1, 2005
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A book for the curious potter. July 19, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is aimed at me. It's for the kind of person who thinks that local is best. Who thinks 'not invented here' is something they don't want said about their work. It's for the potter who wants to find beauty or create beauty from whatever they are given, not from what they can get. Where simplicity, trial and error and the process of finding out something is almost as important as the end result.
There are quite a few potters who use what they can get locally - especially stone types and ash - look at Hamada for instance. I feel I ought to be digging my own clay too. This book offers a wealth of information of where to go and what to try.
A classic handbook for craft potters February 26, 2006
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
First of all, I'd better point out that I am one of the author's sons. But as such, I know that this book was never written as a big commercial venture but as an attempt to record the wealth of information that my father had accrued through years of practical work in the studio.
When Glazes From Natural Sources was first published in 1987, it was rightly considered a classic textbook by leading potters and colleges alike on the science and practical techniques of producing one's own glazes.
Before his death in 1998, the author had been working on a new edition of the book, updated with a fresh design and packed with many new colour illustrations, for leading craft publishers Adam & Charles Black.
The revised second edition was published in early 2006 in the UK. An exciting development is that glaze guru Nigel Wood has written an extensive introduction to glaze-making as an additional chapter for this new edition.
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