"The first half of book provides full information on clays and clay bodies, from digging and preparing clay to adjusting for defects. Then hundreds of recipes for clay bodies are presented, including earthenware, stoneware and soft stoneware, porcelain, raku, Egyptian paste, and oven and rangetop ware, along with information on staining clay bodies and using engobes. In the second half of the book, a wide range of glazes is presented with instructions for glaze preparation and mixing.Hundreds of recipes cover every kind of glaze... Glaze defects, testing, and adjustment are also discussed, along with glaze colorants and stains....The recipes offered in this book are nontoxic."--Jacket flap.
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