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Tables of Contents for The Craft and Art of Clay
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
9
2
1 THE CRAFT AND ART OF CLAY
11
12
Safety Issues
20
3
2 FABRICATION METHODS
23
80
Introduction
24
3
Handbuilding
27
23
Clayworking tools
31
1
Spiral wedging
32
1
Pinching a vessel
33
1
Coil building: smooth surface
34
1
Coil building: textured surface
35
1
Coil and pinch sculpture
36
1
Slab building
37
1
Large slab constructions I
38
1
Large slab constructions II
39
1
Handbuilding with porcelain
40
1
Handbuilding in or over forms
41
1
Figures
42
2
Mechanical methods of forming
44
1
Making walls I
45
1
Making walls II
46
1
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
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
Rolling or trimming a foot
65
1
Pulled and thrown handles
66
1
Attaching a handle
67
1
Thrown and cut lug handles
68
1
Flat lids for flanged pots
69
1
Lidded pot forms
70
1
Dome lids for flanged pots
71
1
Flanged lids: domed and flat
72
1
Casserole dish with inside flange
73
1
Casserole trimming and lid making
74
1
Thrown casserole knob
75
1
Platter throwing
76
1
Platter and plate trimming
77
1
Platter forms
78
1
Teapot forms
79
1
Teapot throwing and trimming
80
1
Teapot lid and spout
81
1
Attaching teapot spout and handle
82
1
Susan Peterson's wheel-thrown forms
83
1
Donut throwing and trimming
84
1
Off-the-hump throwing
85
1
Pedestal vessels
86
1
Throwing large vessels
87
1
Thrown and hand construction
88
1
Thrown slab constructions
89
1
Peter Voulkos' altered wheel forms
90
1
Plasterwork
91
12
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
2
3 DESIGN, DECORATION, AND GLAZING
103
26
Design: from Idea to Art
104
6
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 clay
113
1
Texturing clay
114
1
Prints from clay
115
1
Glazing
116
13
Weighing and mixing a glaze
118
1
Glaze application
119
3
Decorating with glaze
122
1
Decorating over and under glaze
123
1
Decorative techniques with glazes
124
1
Surface details
125
1
The Japanese way
126
1
Photo-emulsion and decals
127
2
4 CLAYS
129
26
Science and ceramic art
130
1
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
2
What is a clay body?
138
1
Testing materials
139
2
Composing a good clay body
141
2
Talc body
143
1
Additions to the clay-body batch
144
2
Preparing the clay for work
146
1
Making casting slip
147
1
Historical clay bodies
148
4
Unusual clay bodies
152
3
5 GLAZES
155
50
Feldspars: clay and glaze fluxes
156
1
Origins of glazes
157
1
Fine examples of glazes
158
2
Visual samples: 34 glaze materials, alone and in 50/50 blends
160
4
Reading the test photographs
164
2
50/50 blends of 34 glaze materials, cone 5 oxidation
166
2
50/50 blends of 34 glaze materials, cone 10 reduction
168
2
Compounding a complete glaze
170
1
Composite glaze fluxes
170
2
Organic materials for glazes
172
1
Fusion buttons of frits
173
1
Garbage glazes
174
1
Colors
175
4
Ceramic coloring implements
179
1
Stains for coloring implements
180
1
Color blends
181
5
Ferro frits-plus-stains -- low-fire
186
2
Frits-plus-stains -- high-fire
188
2
Changing glazes
190
2
Low-fire treatments
192
2
MayCo "one-strokes" (stains)
194
1
MayCo "underglazes" (engobes)
195
1
MayCo "art glazes"
196
1
MayCo "special glazes"
197
1
Luster
198
1
China paint process
198
3
Working with gold
201
1
Drawing a grid pattern
202
1
Glaze faults
203
2
6 FIRING THE WARE
205
32
Temperature
207
3
Atmosphere
210
1
Kilns
211
8
Placing kilns
215
1
Kiln materials
215
2
Stacking kilns
217
2
Firing
219
18
Principles of kiln firing
220
2
"Rebirth through clay"
222
1
Special firing techniques
223
1
Firing faults
224
1
Patinas developed in firing
225
12
7 HIGHPOINTS IN CERAMIC HISTORY
237
32
Historical Overview
239
23
Influences in our time
253
2
Site-specific installations
255
3
Tile
258
1
Narrative
259
1
Mixed media
260
1
Kaneko's Fremont project
261
1
Ancient Traditions
262
7
Golden Bridge Pottery
267
2
8 PORTFOLIO
269
48
9 COMPENDIUM
317
32
Glaze Oxides
318
5
Chemical Compositions
323
9
Calculating glaze by formula
325
7
Data and Conversions
332
17
Feldspars, frits, and clays
332
8
Temperatures and cones
340
6
Conversion charts
346
1
Computer programs
347
2
Artists' Techniques
349
11
List of Artists
360
2
Museum Collections
362
17
Glossary
379
7
Annotated Bibliography
386
7
General books on ceramics
386
2
Ceramic history
388
4
Technical books
392
1
Ceramics Magazines
393
1
Acknowledgements
394
1
Index
395