The Ceramic Glaze Handbook: Materials * Techniques * Formulas(a Lark Ceramics Book)

by Mark Burleson

Book Overview

An encyclopedia and sourcebook of easy-to-follow information on ceramic glazes. With this work you can move beyond a basic understanding of how to apply and fire glazes and develop the skills... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579902022
• ISBN13: 9781579902025
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Awesome book!

The BEST book a beginner can get on glazing. Explains alot of the chemicals used in glazes and breaks it down for you (what they do etc). I would get this book before you get other glaze books.

the ceramic glaze handbook

Very informative for beginner even. Well explained and pleasant to read. Like it very much.

The Ceramic Glaze Handbook

Our ceramics instructor and I (perennial student) found this book in a local library and our class loves it. We participate in a potter's guild situation, not an academic fine arts class, so the clear explanations in this book by Burleson help cut through the haze of what glazes are made of, how to take care of them, and how to experiment with them. We can't wait to get started.

Only 1 remaining error on page 118

When I ordered the book, there was no reader's reviews. All three reviews appeared the next day after I ordered the book. I would not have purchased it if I had read those reviews. However, when the book arrived, I checked it against the corrections [website] and found that all but one error have been corrected (foot note for middle picture on page 118). There is no indication that the book in my hands is a second printing.This book is well illustrated and extremely well organized for easy comprehension. The pictures of the test tiles for major colorants laid out in a modified 2 x Y factorial design is extremely informative. The format of having one illustration by each formula is the most inspiring and useful way of presenting the formulae. Get this book and Hopper's the Ceramic Spectrum if you want to start formulating your own glazes.