An essential guide to low firing and producing natural finishes without using glazes.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Burnished pottery in history 2. About burnishing 3. Burnishing with terra sigillata 4. Smoke-firing and black-firing 5. Pit-firing 6. Saggar firing 7. Raku firing techniques: horsehair and naked raku 8. Finishing touches Bibliography List of suppliers Contributing artists Glossary Index
Sumi von Dassow makes burnished pottery, teaches at a centre for traditional arts and runs occasional pit-firing workshops. She contributes articles for Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated. Sumi is also the author of Barrel, Pit and Saggar Firing and Electric Kiln Pottery.
A must book not only for beginners but also for the experiences if
just for the pictures alone
*Kent Potters newsletter, January/February 2010*
well produced, as usual, with many good photographs of the
techniques and of the finished works
*London Potters*
A very useful reference work if starting out on burnishing & low
fired finishes for pots
*London Potters*
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