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'This book covers everything you need to know to create a range of glazes'
--London Potters, February/March 2010
'there is much here for the glaze enthusiast'
--Ceramic Review, January/February 2010
--London Potters, February/March 2010
'there is much here for the glaze enthusiast'
--Ceramic Review, January/February 2010
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This book covers everything you need to know to understand and create dry glazes. There is not much information available on dry glazes and this focuses on them entirely. Dry glazes were and are used by some potters (Lucie Rie and Hans Coper are well-known examples) and often by ceramicists creating sculpture, where a shiny glaze is inappropriate. This book covers slips and engobes, oxides and stains, matt glazes and low alumina surfaces, as well as textured and pitted glazes. It explains thoroughly what makes up a dry glaze and how to create them. It is illustrated with work by artists using these glazes, as well many test tiles of examples of dry glazes with their corresponding recipes, making it a valuable resource for ceramicists working in this area.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Jeremy Jernegan has written the definitive book on dry glazes. The recipes that I have tried have all worked for me (although admittedly some were different from how they looked in the book)and the matteness of the glazes allows colours and textures to take centre stage, something that shiny glazes can mask or distract from. If you make sculptural or studio ceramics, these glazes may be just the thing you are looking for to embellish without overwhelming. Most of them look unsuitable for domestic ware owing to the ingredients and the finished textures but they remain some of the most eye catching glazes for the studio potter. I have found them to work better with stoneware than porcelain and if you stain the clay with oxides, they have a very satisfying way of bleeding through the glazes, adding to the final effect of the piece.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Though the book is aimed primarily at those interested in so-called "dry" or matte glazes, it contains a wealth of information on glaze components and how they interact with each other to form a hard colored coating on clay. The first half of the book discusses more general topics such as what makes glazes matte versus glassy; how glazes are applied; the safety considerations involved in the mixing, applying and firing of glazes; and the differences between a glaze, an engobe and a slip. The rest of the book is separated into chapters based on the base element used in the glazes they discuss (for example, sodium, potassium, boron, calcium, barium, and many more). These latter chapters are more technical in nature and much of the information is beyond my ken at present. Nevertheless, they do provide a good overview of the different possible glaze elements; their effects on glazes; and their interactions with different metallic coloring oxides.
So, if matte glazes are of interest to you, then this book is a required purchase. If, like me, you just want to increase your knowledge of glazes in general, then this book is also quite valuable. If nothing else, the book is filled with photographs of luscious ceramic works by a variety of artists, and includes the recipes they used to produce the amazing finishes on those works as well as pages of photographs of test tiles fired using those recipes.
So, if matte glazes are of interest to you, then this book is a required purchase. If, like me, you just want to increase your knowledge of glazes in general, then this book is also quite valuable. If nothing else, the book is filled with photographs of luscious ceramic works by a variety of artists, and includes the recipes they used to produce the amazing finishes on those works as well as pages of photographs of test tiles fired using those recipes.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Being a sculptural ceramicist I am always looking for glazes that are dry, and this is the first book in this series that contains a step by step approach to these glazes. It also illustrates how you can go about developing your own dry glazes. Very comprehensive and will be useful to me for many years to come.
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