The essential studio companion for any potter with a broad range of glaze recipes and clay bodies. The Handbook of Glaze Recipes is an essential studio companion for any potter. Covering a comprehensive range of glazes including porcelain, crystalline and raku as well as stoneware and earthenware, each recipe is illustrated with a useful test tile to demonstrate the effects of opaque, matte and transparent glazes on different clays and at varying temperatures, and numbered for ease of reference. The book also introduces you to the basics of mixing, applying and adjusting glazes, and correcting typical glaze faults and includes many clay body recipes, including a variety of ones for porcelain, wood firing and even Egyptian paste. Compiled by studio potter and glaze expert Linda Bloomfield, and based on meticulously recorded tests and research from a large assortment of established ceramic artists, this book is a must-have resource if you wish to experiment or expand your glazes and clay bodies.>

If there is a classic among the publications on ceramic techniques, it is undoubtedly this recipe book

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Linda Bloomfield trained as a materials scientist before fulfilling her dream of becoming a potter. She has made thrown porcelain tableware in her West London studio since 2003 and sold her various ranges in Liberty and Harrods. Her books include Colour in Glazes and Special Effect Glazes.

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Introduction
Glaze materials
Glaze temperatures
Mixing and applying glazes
Adjusting glazes and correcting glaze faults
Low-fire glaze recipes
Mid-fire glaze recipes
High-fire glaze recipes
Special glaze recipes
Clay body recipes
Appendices