Product Description

This is a new, revised and updated version of Brian Sutherland's classic book on making glazes from natural sources. It is essentially a practical book that deals with locating your own glaze materials, and how to construct, test and use the glazes you create. Rock types and likely sources of supply, making test pieces, the use of blend systems and the Seger system are all fully discussed. The emphasis is always on careful planning and control which ensures results are repeatable. This makes the science behind making glazes from natural sources both understandable and feasible.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #304328 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
The late Brian Sutherland owned his own pottery for many years and was well-known as a founder member of Kent Potters. He also taught for many years and his work is featured in numerous books.

Customer Reviews

A book for the curious potter.
This book is aimed at me. It's for the kind of person who thinks that local is best. Who thinks 'not invented here' is something they don't want said about their work. It's for the potter who wants to find beauty or create beauty from whatever they are given, not from what they can get. Where simplicity, trial and error and the process of finding out something is almost as important as the end result.

There are quite a few potters who use what they can get locally - especially stone types and ash - look at Hamada for instance. I feel I ought to be digging my own clay too. This book offers a wealth of information of where to go and what to try.

A classic handbook for craft potters
First of all, I'd better point out that I am one of the author's sons. But as such, I know that this book was never written as a big commercial venture but as an attempt to record the wealth of information that my father had accrued through years of practical work in the studio.
When Glazes From Natural Sources was first published in 1987, it was rightly considered a classic textbook by leading potters and colleges alike on the science and practical techniques of producing one's own glazes.
Before his death in 1998, the author had been working on a new edition of the book, updated with a fresh design and packed with many new colour illustrations, for leading craft publishers Adam & Charles Black.
The revised second edition was published in early 2006 in the UK. An exciting development is that glaze guru Nigel Wood has written an extensive introduction to glaze-making as an additional chapter for this new edition.