Ceramics (Decorative Techniques)
Titles in the profusely illustratedDecorative Techniquesseries help you master a variety of arts and crafts that will get you started in decorating your home?s interior and embellishing your yard and garden. Each title is devoted to a specific craft. This book offers detailed instruction in the basics of working with clay to create beautiful and enduring ceramic objects. You?ll find information on necessary tools, techniques of shaping and molding clay, using a potter?s wheel, decorating and painting your creations, and firing in a kiln. As you follow this volume?s step-by-step, photo-illustrated directions, you?ll soon be making handsome urns, vases, decorative tiles, bowls, cups, saucers, and other beautiful ceramic objects.