The Complete Potter: Throwing

By Richard Ohethean and Richard Phethean

Book Overview

This introductory text looks at the techniques of throwing in pottery. Beginning with a section on preparing clay, equipment and materials, the author shows, with a series of sequence photographs, how to use the potter's wheel to create a wide variety of functional and ornamental forms. Lastly, the book illustrates how to decorate and distort the thrown clay form. Examples of finished work are shown throughout.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713466480
• ISBN13: 9780713466485
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: B T Batsford Ltd
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 0.5" x 7.5"