# The Workshop Guide to Ceramics

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- Authors: [Duncan Hooson](https://www.bookquiver.com/duncan-hooson), [Anthony Quinn](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-quinn)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-03-19

## Description

This comprehensive workshop reference for ceramicists brings together a vast range of skills, techniques and technical data in one volume to provide an essential look-it-up resource for weekend crafters, students and professionals. Techniques are explored thematically to help the process of discovery that takes place in the workshop, supported by detailed descriptions and step-by-step photography. This allows the maker to evolve ideas in a natural way, with techniques building upon each other. All techniques are examined closely for relevance to practice and quality of finish. The practical processes of running a workshop are discussed alongside the more complex techniques of making unique work. An extensive guide covers forming techniques, from pinch, coil, slab and wheel to mould-making, slip casting and extrusion, while detailed sections explore slip decoration, embossing and glazing, glaze recipes and applications. Examples of how to set up a studio, good workshop practices, tool usage and recycling of materials act as a foundation to creating a strong environment to carry out your work. The book also includes a comprehensive guide to firing and kilns. This book is the must-have workship guide for anyone working with ceramics, from weekend crafters, night school or college students through to practising ceramicists seeking a one-stop reference on techniques and processes.

## Editions

### The Workshop Guide to Ceramics

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0051-621-8
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2012-03-19
- Language: en_GB