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Tables of Contents for The Craft and Art of Clay
Chapter/Section Title
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Page Count
PREFACE
9
1
1 THE CRAFT AND ART OF CLAY
10
12
SAFETY ISSUES
20
2
2 FABRICATION METHODS
22
80
INTRODUCTION
23
3
HANDBUILDING
26
24
Clayworking tools
30
1
Spiral wedging
31
1
Pinching a vessel
32
1
Coil building
33
1
Coil and pinch sculpture
34
1
Handbuilding with porcelain
35
1
Slab building
36
1
TRAILBLAZER: Juan Quezada
37
1
Large slab constructions
38
2
Handbuilding in or over forms
40
1
Figures
41
3
Mechanical methods of forming
44
1
Making walls
45
2
Walls
47
1
John Mason's handbuilt sculpture
48
2
WHEEL-THROWING
50
41
Throwing on the wheel
53
1
Throwing faults and remedies
54
1
Centering
55
1
Opening the ball
56
1
Pulling up
57
1
Throwing a bowl
58
1
Shinsaku Hamada's large bowl
59
1
Toshiko Takaezu's balloon-form
60
1
Throwing a pitcher
61
1
Bowl forms
62
1
Pitcher and bottle forms
63
1
Throwing a bottle
64
1
Methods of footing pots
65
1
Pulling and attaching handles
66
1
Thrown and cut handles
67
1
Flat lids for flanged pots
68
1
Dome lids for flanged pots
69
1
Flanged lids: domed and flat
70
1
Lidded pot forms
71
1
Casserole dish with inside flange
72
1
Casserole trimming and lid making
73
1
Thrown casserole knob
74
1
Platter throwing
75
1
Platter and plate trimming
76
1
Platter forms
77
1
Teapot forms
78
1
Teapot throwing, lid and spout
79
2
Susan Peterson's wheel-thrown forms
81
1
Donut throwing and trimming
82
1
Off-the-hump throwing
83
1
Pedestal vessels
84
1
Large constructions
85
3
TRAILBLAZER: Peter Voulkos
88
2
Thrown and hand construction
90
1
PLASTERWORK
91
11
Preparing plaster
93
1
Making a one-piece mold
94
1
Making a two-piece mold
95
1
Two-piece mold with handle
96
1
Slip casting and press molding
97
1
Multipiece molds
98
1
Wheelheads and complicated molds
99
1
Inventing with molds
100
1
A ceramic installation
101
1
3 DESIGN, DECORATION, AND GLAZING
102
26
DESIGN: FROM IDEA TO ART
103
7
An exercise in how to see
106
1
Experimenting with design
107
1
Design ideas from nature
108
2
DECORATION
110
6
Decorating with clay
111
1
Pre-patterned decoration
112
1
Creating line in three dimensions
113
1
Texturing clay
114
1
Prints from clay
115
1
GLAZING
116
12
Weighing and mixing a glaze
118
1
How to glaze
119
1
Decorating over and under glaze
120
1
Decorating with glaze
121
1
Glaze application
122
2
Decorative techniques with glazes
124
1
Surface details
125
1
The Japanese way
126
1
Photo-emulsion and decals
127
1
4 CLAYS
128
30
Science and ceramic art
129
2
Geological types of natural clays
131
3
Commercial clays after firing
134
1
Test results of commercial clays
135
1
Classifying fired clay wares
136
3
What is a clay body?
139
1
Testing materials
140
2
Composing a good clay body
142
2
Talc body
144
2
Paperclay
146
1
TRAILBLAZER: Luo Xiao-Ping
147
1
Additions to the clay-body batch
148
2
Preparing the clay for work
150
1
Making casting slip
151
1
Historical clay bodies
152
4
Unusual clay bodies
156
2
5 GLAZES
158
54
Origins of glazes
158
2
Feldspars: clay and glaze fluxes
160
1
Developing glazes
161
1
Fine examples of glazes
162
2
Visual samples: 34 glaze materials, alone and in 50/50 blends
164
4
Reading the test photographs
168
2
50/50 blends of 34 glaze materials, cone 5 oxidation
170
2
50/50 blends of 34 glaze materials, cone 10 reduction
172
2
Compounding a complete glaze
174
1
Composite glaze fluxes
174
2
Organic materials for glazes
176
1
Fusion buttons of frits
177
2
Garbage glazes
179
1
Colors
180
4
Ceramic coloring implements
184
1
Stains for coloring implements
185
1
Ways of blending colors
186
6
Ferro frits-plus-stains - low-fire
192
2
Frits-plus-stains - high-fire
194
2
Simple ways of changing glazes
196
2
Low-fire treatments
198
2
MayCo "one-strokes" (stains)
200
1
MayCo "underglazes" (engobes)
201
1
MayCo "art glazes"
202
1
MayCo "special glazes"
203
1
TRAILBLAZER: Toshiko Takaezu
204
1
Lusters for reduction firing
205
1
China paint process
205
1
Making your own lusters for oxidation firing
206
2
Working with gold
208
2
Drawing a grid pattern
210
1
Glaze faults
211
1
6 FIRING THE WARE
212
36
MARKETING AND COMPUTERS
248
TEMPERATURE
214
4
ATMOSPHERE
218
1
KILNS
219
8
Placing kilns
223
1
Kiln materials
223
2
Stacking kilns
225
2
FIRING
227
21
Principles of kiln firing
228
2
"Rebirth through clay"
230
1
Special firing techniques
231
2
Firing faults
233
10
Fired in place sculpture
243
1
Patinas developed in firing
244
1
TRAILBLAZER: Huey Beckham
245
1
Potters who also work in glass
246
2
7 MARKETING AND COMPUTERS
248
14
Marketing
249
4
TAILBLAZER: Otto Heino
253
1
Computer programs
254
2
Virtual ceramics
256
3
Tableware
259
3
8 HIGHPOINTS IN CERAMIC HISTORY
262
44
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
265
33
Influences in our time
279
5
Site-specific installations
284
5
Tile
289
1
Narrative
290
5
Mixed media
295
2
Kaneko's Fremont project
297
1
ANCIENT TRADITIONS
298
54
Bridging two worlds
303
1
Golden Bridge Pottery
304
1
TRAILBLAZER: Janet Mansfield
305
1
9 PORTFOLIO
306
46
10 COMPENDIUM
GLAZE OXIDES
352
5
CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS
357
9
Calculating glaze, batch to formula and formula to batch
359
5
More charts for use in glaze calculations
364
2
DATA AND CONVERSIONS
366
52
Feldspars, frits, and clays
366
1
Frits
366
1
Ferro lead-bearing frits
367
1
Ferro leadless frits
368
1
Pemco lead-bearing frits
369
1
Pemco leadless frits
369
5
Temperatures and cones
374
5
Conversion charts
379
1
ARTISTS' TECHNIQUES
380
11
LIST OF ARTISTS
391
5
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
396
16
GLOSSARY
412
6
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
418
6
General books on ceramics
418
2
Ceramic history
420
3
Technical books
423
1
CERAMICS MAGAZINES
424
1
RESIDENCIES
425
1
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
426
1
INDEX
427