The Handbook of Glaze Recipes

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Description

The Handbook of Glaze Recipes is an essential studio companion for any potter. Covering a comprehensive range of glazes including porcelain, crystalline and raku as well as stoneware and earthenware, each recipe is illustrated with a useful test tile to demonstrate the effects of opaque, matte, and transparent glazes on different clays and at varying temperatures, and numbered for ease of reference. The book also features an introduction to the basics of mixing, applying and adjusting glazes, and correcting typical glaze faults. It also includes many clay body recipes, including a variety of ones for porcelain, wood firing and even Egyptian paste. Compiled by studio potter and glaze expert Linda Bloomfield, and based not only on on years of meticulously recorded tests, but also researched from a large assortment of established ceramic artists, The Handbook of Glaze Recipes is a must-have resource for any potter wishing to experiment or expand their glazes and clay bodies.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Glaze materials
Glaze temperatures
Mixing and applying glazes
Adjusting glazes and correcting glaze faults
Low-fire glaze recipes
Mid-fire glaze recipes
High-fire glaze recipes
Special glaze recipes
Clay body recipes
Appendices

Product details

Published 05 Apr 2018
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 144
ISBN 9781912217489
Imprint Herbert Press
Illustrations ~195 colour illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Linda Bloomfield

Linda Bloomfield trained as a materials scientist…

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