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The first comprehensive go-to-book about this 5,000 year-old form of opaque glassmaking!

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For those eager to try their hand at a decorative glass project, Stained Glass Projects for Beginners is the ideal starting place. Twenty beginner-friendly projects demonstrate a wide range of beautiful glass techniques, including etching, copper foiling, leading, and applique. The pieces range from simple light catchers and lanterns to fabulous p

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Beauty in imperfection! Learn the ancient Japanese art of kintsugi with this range of projects, both traditional and modern, and restore plates, vases, statues, and other items--whether precious or thrift-store-level--to be better than new.

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"This book offers you forty years of wisdom, generated by my students' and my client ceramics companies' issues with clays, glazes, and kiln firing."

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Celebrates the contemporary revival of pottery, focusing on six inspiring cities and their makers

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This book is an introduction to the use of additions in clay bodies, from hard materials like stones and glass to combustible matter, fibre, metals and colour. It looks at the work of a range of contemporary international makers who are using additions.

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Air-dried paper clay steps up to fine art, using paint and mixed-media materials.

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Learn the ancient craft of making artisan pots, from clay preparation and drying to glazing and firing.

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Presents the work of 100+ established and emerging international polymer clay artists. In this book, each chapter focuses on a specific category of polymer clay work, including colour, fashion, miniatures and more. It also includes in-depth profiles of influential artists and step-by-step demonstrations of his or her signature technique.

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Lays out an easy-to-follow step-by-step method of blocking out the plane structure and anatomy of the posed figure. The author's approach utilises a geometric system consisting of blocks, simple shapes and guidelines, which instructs students in a new and instinctive sculptural style.

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Although this is essentially a very simple subject, it can be used to make the most basic of forms to the most complex. This broad approach to slab work shows a wide variety of building methods and shows the work of many high-profile makers in this area.

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Winner of the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, this book is about a journey undertaken by the author that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice, Versailles, Dublin, Dresden, the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain.

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A guide that covers the materials, tools, methods, and techniques you need to make original ceramic pieces in a wide range of forms. From hand sculpting to pinching, wheel throwing to slip casting, it offers easy-to-follow instructions accompanied by photographs to make the world of ceramics clear and exciting.

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A study of the scenic tiles produced in San Antonio from the 1930s to the 1970s

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Most of the subjects of Lucio Bubacco s (b. 1957) glass art are provocative and polarising; at the same time they are sensual and beguiling.

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Michael Glancy is one of the most significant representatives of studio glass in the United States. The publication presents his recent works, which are hailed for their graceful complexity, startling originality and beautiful craftsmanship by combining a variety of glass machining techniques and the electroform process.

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Pottery is one of the earliest and most widespread of human activities and its history can be traced back to the Stone Age. This title surveys ceramic art and production worldwide, since prehistory. It begins with the earliest civilizations of the Near and Middle East and follows the production of pottery chronologically around the globe.

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A technique-based pottery book for new and practising potters to bring their pottery surface to life with beautiful carving techniques.

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Glass can add an unusual and ethereal quality to a piece of jewellery.

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A project-driven collection of beautiful pinched clay pots to make by one of the best practical authors writing today.

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An essential illustrated reference for both beginner and advanced potters, these step-by-step photographic sequences guide you through a comprehensive range of shaping, firing and decorating techniques, so you can begin making wonderful ceramics even if you've never attempted pottery before.

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A range of decorative delights, from quirky fairies, funky cats and glitzy Christmas baubles to glowing lamps and elegant cocktail glasses.

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