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Throwing large work is a challenging area and takes a different approach to throwing normal ware. This book looks at throwing purely from the perspective of making very large work. It assumes the reader can already throw, but different techniques are needed when making large work because of all the added problems - it can buckle during making, collapse if not moved to the kiln safely and warp in the firing. Not to mention that the techniques needed to physically throw much larger work are very different. This book looks at all of this, offering clear guidance on how to make work successfully, covering the various techniques used, (such as throwing on coils and throwing in sections, or blow-torching work before continuing to throw) as well as how to avoid disastrous pitfalls. Although we do have bits of information in other books, this would be a handy guide collecting all the relevant material. The handbook we already have called Large-scale Ceramics focuses on handbuilding.
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Nic Collins is a very well-known wood firer who has been making large-scale work for many years. He has a very high profile in the ceramic world and demonstrates at many of the big exhibitions such as Rufford and Aberystwyth. He runs his own kiln building and throwing-large workshops.
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Nic has written a book that outlines techniques for throwing large pots. Although these techniques have been around for a while - most of them anyway - I can't find them described in any other book on throwing that I own, and so that makes this book unique as far as I can tell.
It starts by covering suitable clays for throwing large pots, and a description of tools that you'll need. It then describes in some detail, some techniques that Nic uses to make large pots - the doughnut method, coiling and throwing, and sectional making. Nic also touches on various methods that he himself doesn't use but has seen in practice, such as korean onggi techniques. Each method is described in text and shown in a series of photographic montages and/or diagrams.
An important point is made, that making large pots isn't about strength and huge muscles, but about techinque. In fact, Nic seems to deal in balls of clay no bigger than about 7 lbs, using various cunning ways of combining these into larger quantities and pots. In fact, even for the modest thrower, these methods could be used to make pots that are double the size that you usually make, which in itself is quite something.
The last chapters deal with finishing pots - so, moving large pots, drying large pots, and firing and glazing pots. There is then a chapter featuring various potters, uk and international, who make large pots, ranging from large flower pots to huge jars. Because Nic is a woodfired potter, many of the potters featured are also woodfirers, but not all of them.
All in all, I think this is an excellent little book, superbly illustrated. I have tried many of these methods in the past with various degrees of success, and from one pass through the book, I can already see where I have been going wrong. It's a must for anyone who throws pots, even if you only buy it for the lovely pictures. But I think it will be useful to any thrower, whether you want to make 'large' pots, or just 'larger' pots, since large is a relative term - these methods can apply at whatever scale you work at, I think.
It starts by covering suitable clays for throwing large pots, and a description of tools that you'll need. It then describes in some detail, some techniques that Nic uses to make large pots - the doughnut method, coiling and throwing, and sectional making. Nic also touches on various methods that he himself doesn't use but has seen in practice, such as korean onggi techniques. Each method is described in text and shown in a series of photographic montages and/or diagrams.
An important point is made, that making large pots isn't about strength and huge muscles, but about techinque. In fact, Nic seems to deal in balls of clay no bigger than about 7 lbs, using various cunning ways of combining these into larger quantities and pots. In fact, even for the modest thrower, these methods could be used to make pots that are double the size that you usually make, which in itself is quite something.
The last chapters deal with finishing pots - so, moving large pots, drying large pots, and firing and glazing pots. There is then a chapter featuring various potters, uk and international, who make large pots, ranging from large flower pots to huge jars. Because Nic is a woodfired potter, many of the potters featured are also woodfirers, but not all of them.
All in all, I think this is an excellent little book, superbly illustrated. I have tried many of these methods in the past with various degrees of success, and from one pass through the book, I can already see where I have been going wrong. It's a must for anyone who throws pots, even if you only buy it for the lovely pictures. But I think it will be useful to any thrower, whether you want to make 'large' pots, or just 'larger' pots, since large is a relative term - these methods can apply at whatever scale you work at, I think.
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