Handbuilt, A Potter's Guide: Master timeless techniques, explore new forms, dig and process your own clay

Handbuilt: A Potters Guide by Melissa Weiss is a comprehensive guide to handbuilding pottery without a wheel. It covers harvesting and working with wild clay, using natural glazes, and slab and pinch-pot techniques. It also includes exclusive knowledge of digging and processing local clays and techniques for creating unique glazes.

Format: Hardback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 22 November 2018
Publisher: Rockport Publishers Inc.

Handbuilt pottery is a fantastic option for beginners who want to explore this unique medium without access to a potters wheel. In Handbuilt, A Potters Guide, pottery expert Melissa Weiss takes an organic approach to harvesting and working with local clays, and even shows you how to mix your own glazes to use on functional pottery for use at home. Students of pottery the world over have traveled to North Carolina to attend Weisss classes. Now, you dont have to! In this book, Melissa provides you with:

A solid course on slab and pinch-pot techniques that allow beginning students to master the basics and progress through finished wares.
Exclusive knowledge of how to dig and process local clays for use in pottery.
Techniques she has developed for creating unique glazes with ash, salt, and other dry materials.
Introductions to talented contemporary potters, who will share their work, tips, advice, and techniques.
Learn the basics of handbuilding and more with this engaging guide.

Weight: 758g
Dimension: 262 x 213 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781631595981