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Lessons with Clay

Step-by-Step Techniques for Colorful Designs in Hand-Thrown and Hand-Built Tableware

Melisa Dora

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Schiffer Publishing Ltd
01 December 2022
"Learn to design, form, throw, fire, and glaze your own tableware. Make mugs, plates, bowls, serving dishes, vases, and more from beginning to end. Discover how to photograph, market, and sell your work as well as how to make your work green by recycling and repurposing materials.

Expert ceramicist Melisa Dora teaches beginners everything they need to know to make exquisite ceramic tableware. Step-by-step instructions clearly outline the techniques for forming and building your pieces, throwing the clay, firing, and glazing. Learn the best practices for using clay and different glazes - and even how even how to make your own glazes. Discover how to reuse, recycle, and reclaim materials; tips for troubleshooting; and advice for photographing, marketing, and selling the finished work. Once readers have mastered the techniques, they can use them to create mugs, plates, bowls, serving dishes, vases, and more. Melisa Dora, a ceramics artist whose work is sold worldwide and is featured in coffee shops and restaurants around South East London, makes it easy to design and create your own colourful pieces that will adorn your home and brighten your life.

AUTHOR: Melisa Dora is a ceramics artist specialising in versatile and tactile hand-thrown tableware. She maintains a ceramics studio, working on a variety of tableware collections and freelance commissions. She teaches ceramic workshops and enjoys passing on her own passion for making beautiful objects by hand. Melisa lives in London, UK.

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Thorough and clear step-by-step instructions for forming, throwing, firing, and glazing ceramic tableware .

For beginners who want to learn techniques and best practices for creating and selling ceramics .

Helps make ceramics ""green"" by showing how to reuse, recycle, and repurpose clay and glazes

150 colour images"

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Imprint:   Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 254mm, 
Weight:   816g
ISBN:   9780764364693
ISBN 10:   0764364693
Pages:   160
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Melisa Dora is a ceramics artist specializing in versatile and tactile hand-thrown tableware. She maintains a ceramics studio, working on a variety of tableware collections and freelance commissions. She teaches ceramic workshops and enjoys passing on her own passion for making beautiful objects by hand. Melisa lives in London, UK.   https://www.melisadora.com

Reviews for Lessons with Clay: Step-by-Step Techniques for Colorful Designs in Hand-Thrown and Hand-Built Tableware

nbsp;“This one-stop-shop for potters in the making hits all the marks.” -- Publishers Weekly


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