- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd (31 Oct 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713679387
- ISBN-13: 978-0713679380
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 314,945 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A useful book for the potter stepping up from "hobby status".' KPA Newsletter (May 2007)
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This book is a handy guide to setting up a pottery workshop. It covers not only fundamental questions such as types of premises, design and layout of the workshop, equipment and materials, and how to make simple tools, but also questions of marketing and promotion, legal considerations and finance. To illustrate these points, the author discusses how various potters have tackled the issues raised and gives illustrations of a wide range of different workshops. The book draws on the experiences of an international group of artists, and so it will also be pertinent for potters outside the UK. This book is a must for those setting up a pottery for the first time, as well as the established potter who is experiencing difficulty in one of the areas covered, e.g. promotion and marketing.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a practical guide and will be relevant to anyone considering to establishing a workshop. It offers useful information and guidance on the type of problems which potters will encounter. There are many good sections including equipment, tools, kilns, business practice and selling. I was particularly interested in the examples of a variety of established workshops ranging from a room in a domestic house to large rural workshops in converted farm buildings. Each section also deals with relevant health and safety issues.
The previous reviewer who complained that he was not told which clay to use doesn't understand that this will depend on the requirements of each individual potter and process used, Raku, handbuilding, throwing etc. Truly a personal choice and not one to be second guessed by the author.
The previous reviewer who complained that he was not told which clay to use doesn't understand that this will depend on the requirements of each individual potter and process used, Raku, handbuilding, throwing etc. Truly a personal choice and not one to be second guessed by the author.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Alistair Young's book is an excellent guide, full of practical suggestions and covering a wide variety of important considerations, including firing methods and building techniques. No two studios are the same. Pottery is not an exact science, there is therefore not always just one way of going about constructing a pottery. Given that the authour has had personal contact (through teaching, as well as running his own pottery) with many of the very well known potters mentioned in this book, he is able to show you examples of their work and how they have gone about things. Lots of useful little wrinkles (tips). It is an instructive and helpful book. It is not for those who want a list of instructions as if building a plastic kit, it is a source of inspiration. Look up Clay Hill Potters and see how these people benefitted from Mr. Young's advice.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Phil Rogers' Throwing Pots book in this series I found very useful, so I had similar expectations for this. Unfortunately, it covers too wide a range of subjects in too few pages to go into any topic in useful detail. I wanted real specifics about what clays, glazes and equipment to buy, where to get them, how to make tools, what furniture to buy/make and and, well... how to set up a pottery workshop. Too much of this book is filler: murky photographs or inane comments like 'home-made packaging can be made from supermarket carrier bags filled with crumpled paper.' A waste of money.
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