How to make pottery
by Mary White
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Excerpt from How to Make PotteryAcknowledgment is hereby made to the Bureau of American Ethnology for permitting the use of the illustrations reproduced in Chapter XI.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or mi...
Chapters (196)
- How to Make Pottery
- To My Husband
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- LIST OF FIGURES
- CHAPTER I THE CLAYS AND TOOLS
- Tools
- CHAPTER II HAND-MADE POTTERY
- CHAPTER III WORKING ON THE WHEEL
- Methods of Decoration
- CHAPTER IV METHODS OF DECORATION
- Dish for Candy with Ring Design
- To Decorate a Small Bowl with Incised Design of Maple Seeds
- CHAPTER V THE GLAZE AND HOW TO APPLY IT
- To Glaze the Inside of a Piece of Pottery
- The Outside Glaze and How to Apply It
- Gray-Green Mat-Glaze
- Pale-green Mat-Glaze
- CHAPTER VI POTTERY FOR BEAUTY AND USE
- Dark-Green Fruit-Bowl
- Candlestick, Thumb Design
- Bowl for a Lamp
- Wall Jar for Plants or Flowers
- Dutch Dish for Candy
- Rose-Bowl with Moth Design
- Flower Candlestick
- CHAPTER VII HOW TO MAKE A PLASTER MOULD
- A Bowl-shaped Mould of Plaster
- Rose-Bowl Started in a Mould
- CHAPTER VIII THE MAKING OF A TILE
- CHAPTER IX THE KILN
- THE OPEN-FIRE KILN
- CHAPTER X BASKET-COVERED POTTERY
- Indian Pottery Bowl Suspended with Raffia
- Green Pottery Jar Inclosed and Suspended with Brown Rattan
- Jar of Flemish Pottery Inclosed with Pale-Green Rattan
- Green Pottery Bowl with Covering and Handles of Green Rattan
- Three-Handled Bowl for Plants or Flowers
- CHAPTER XI INDIAN POTTERY
- CHAPTER XII MODERN AMERICAN POTTERY
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