Ceramics Handbooks: Handbuilding (Ceramics Handbooks)

Michael Hardy

A C Black Publishers Ltd

In this book Michael Hardy looks at the traditional handbuilding methods of pinching, coiling, slab building and press-moulding and explains how to do them. Having previously been eclipsed by throwing as a making method, handbuilding is once more coming to the fore as a preferred technique among ceramic artists. These artists are exploring the possibilities that handbuilding provides, pushing back the boundaries and combining techniques to achieve some of the most exciting ceramics today.

Ceramics Handbooks: Handbuilding

Coiling

Arts & Photography

Other Media

BLACK A & C

Michael Hardy looks at the traditional handbuilding methods of pinching, coiling, slab building and pressmoulding, and explains in detail how to use them. The simplicity and steadiness of most handbuilding techniques means that they can be used to build much more complex forms than can be achieved on the wheel, and so appeals to a wide range of ceramic artists. These artists are exploring the possibilities that handbuilding provides, pushing back the boundaries and combining techniques to achieve some of the most exciting ceramics today.

Handbuilding (Ceramics Handbooks)

Gidleigh: A Dartmoor Village - Past and Present

History

Anthony D. Grumley-Grennan

Europe

Glebe Publishing

Outdoor Theatre Facilities

Institute of Outdoor Theatre

Michael Hardy brings the history of Watauga County to modern times by updating the two previously published books by John Preston Arthur in 1915 and by Daniel J. Whitener in 1949.

A Short History of Watauga County

Americas

Parkway Publisher

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