Ceramics Handbook: Dry Glazes by Jeremy Jernegan

This book covers everything you need to know to understand and create dry glazes. Dry glazes are used by many potters and often by ceramicists creating sculpture, where a shiny glaze is not appropriate.

Learn all about slips and engobes, oxides and stains, matt glazes and low alumina surfaces, textured and pitted glazes as well as what makes up dry glazes and how to create them. The book is beautifully illustrated with famous artists’ work, as well as many test tiles of examples of dry glazes with their corresponding recipes, making it a valuable resource for ceramicists working in this area or anyone curious to explore the medium.

Table of Contents

1. What makes a dry glaze dry?
2. Health and safety
3. Developing the surface and visual texture
4. Slips and engobes
5. Alkaline glazes: rich in sodium, potassium and lithium
6. Boron, lead and zinc matts
7. Calcium and magnesium matts
8. Barium and strontium matts
9. Special effects glazes
10. Colouring oxides and raku-fired matts

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019
Imprint: Herbert Press
ISBN: 9781912217922
144 pages
Paperback
120 colour images
234 x 156 mm