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Mastering Raku

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Steve Branfman
November 2009  176 pages  Hardcover with Jacket   all in color  
From firing to finishing, this is the definitive reference on raku. Ceramists will be informed and inspired by this newly updated, technique-based book with how-to photos and text. It covers such topics as types of clay, forming techniques, firing, glazes, decoration, and kilns and kiln construction. Mastering Raku also includes a gallery of works from around the world along with updated clay and glaze recipes.  Steve Branfman is one of the leading Raku artists in the field today.

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Low-Firing and Burnishing

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Sumi von Dassow
Because low-firing is the most basic of all ceramic techniques, it really treats all your senses. Using just about the lowest possible technical setting, you submit your work to flames and smoke giving you a sense of what the ancients felt when they used fire to create their primitive works. Both ancient cultures and contemporary potters have used low-firing to great effect, adding slips and burnishing pieces to create finishes not possible with any other firing method. Whether using an old garbage can, a pit in the ground, or a bonfire, low-firing is accessible to anyone with an outdoor space. Low-firing and Burnishing provides step-by-step practical information focusing on various approaches to low firing and methods for creating natural finishes.  Covers burnishing, burnishing with terra sigillata, pit firing, saggar firing, horsehair firing and naked raku.  

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Raku: Investigations Into Fire

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David Jones
There is a marrying of ideas, process, and action in Raku that creates some of the most exciting forms of contemporary clay art. Raku: Investigations into Fire is a comprehensive study of this popular ceramic process. Its history is traced from its earliest beginnings in Japanese ritual to current preoccupations dealing with the relationship of clay, artist, and fire. The history of Raku provides a framework for understanding the most recent developments in materials and technology, while an analysis of design illuminates the ways in which new ideas are developed. There is also an extensive examination of the methods of generating the rich and seductive surfaces, as well as the most recent innovations in technology and process-all beautifully illustrated with 200 fine color photographs. This is an ideal book for both the beginner and the experienced practitioner.

Alternative Kilns & Firing Techniques

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Watkins and Wandless
Published May 28, 2004  128 pages
Ceramicists searching for new ways to fire their creations now have a wealth of options. Authors James Watkins and Paul Wandless, along with a group of distinguished artisans, demonstrate in detail how to build low-cost, low-tech, yet high-quality kilns. These clever devices make it possible to produce rich surface effects from alternative reduction firing techniques. In addition to showing the basic procedures for using each kiln, easy-to-follow directions for many fast-fire methods unfold in color photographs: you’ll see how to achieve terra sigillata surfaces with direct chemical application, and how to do traditional crackle-glaze raku and smoke finishes.

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Soda, Clay and Fire  new!

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Gail Nichols
Published 2007  softcover 1-57498-167-6
Soda glazing is a relatively new development in ceramic history, with exciting scope for research and experimentation. It is a more popular ceramic practice, particularly in the U.S., where it is widely taught in college ceramics departments and workshops, and has attracted a high number or professional practitioners. Few people have explored the potential for serious engagement of soda vapor with clay bodies, the dynamics of atmosphere during firing and cooling, and the unique aesthetic potential of soda in its own right. This book aims to meet the demand for more advanced technical knowledge of materials and process and more innovative approaches to soda glazing.

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Raku

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John Mathieson

Raku has long been a popular technique amongst potters.  There is an excitement about standing around a fire, watching pots heat, the smoking sawdust, and finally the tense expectancy of seeing the final result.  The very uncertainty of the results is one of the things that draws so many potters to raku.  In this book John Mathieson discussed the clays and glazes that are suitable for this technique.  He also discusses kilns and burners, and firing and post-firing reduction.  Along the way he takes a look at the work that is being done in this field by an international group of artists.  The result is a handy and inspirational guide to this most exciting of firing methods.   

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Raku Pottery

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159 pages, 7 color pages and hundreds of B&W photos  8x11", paperback
Robert Piepenburg
Expert information on materials and techniques for contemporary potters, plus history, spirit and philosophy behind this unique ceramic art form.

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Soda Glazing

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96 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 20 color,70 b/w illus.
Paper 1995 | ISBN 0-8122-1571-0
Ruthanne Tudball
Soda Glazing is fast becoming a popular firing technique, because it produces the popular "orange-peel" texture commonly associated with salt glazed ware, but without the sodium chloride vapor.  In addition to being more environmentally friendly, Soda Glazing also produces more subtle colors than traditional salt glazing.  Covers glaze recipes, kiln building, application and firing techniques. 

Wood Firing: Journeys and Techniques
A Collection of Articles from Ceramics Monthly

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Softcover, 132 pages, June 2001, color images throughout
Ceramics Monthly
For many potters, wood is more than just a source of heat for a kiln, it is a process. Wood firing can provide a link for ceramic artists to their surroundings and to potteryıs beginnings thousands of years ago. This new handbook shares the experiences of individual potters who have sought to reconnect with a basic technology in our hi-tech society and who want to explore and master all the possible variables that this technique provides for the creative process. This book describes some of the technical, safety, and physical challenges of wood firing through first-hand accounts and interviews with potters. These are their personal stories, and in telling them, they share their lessons learned and much of their technical knowledge.

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