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Carve Your Clay Hilda Carr

Carve Your Clay By Hilda Carr

Carve Your Clay by Hilda Carr


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Summary

A technique-based pottery book for new and practising potters to bring their pottery surface to life with beautiful carving techniques.

Carve Your Clay Summary

Carve Your Clay: Techniques to Bring the Pottery Surface to Life by Hilda Carr

Focusing on the pottery surface, Carve Your Clay covers a wide range of decorative carving techniques, from piercing, etching, inlaying to sgraffito, faceting, and fettling.

The techniques are taught through 20 projects in Hilda's signature style, with clear, step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow instructions to achieve beautiful results. With easy guides on how to create form as well as glazing and firing, this is a comprehensive guide suitable for new and practising potters alike.

Carve Your Clay Reviews

Focusing on the pottery surface this book covers a wide range of decorative carving techniques, from incising, combing, inlaying to sgraffito, faceting and fettling.

The techniques are taught through 16 projects with clear step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions. With easy guides on how to create form as well as information on glazing and firing, this is a comprehensive guide suitable for potters of all skill levels.

* Emerging Potters *

About Hilda Carr

A set designer by trade, Surrey-based Hilda Carr turned her hand to ceramics in 2014 and now sells her work through her website as well as in shops and galleries across the UK. She has built up a large following on Instagram (30.5K) where she frequently shares her development and techniques. Check her out @hildacarrpottery on Instagram and www.hildacarrpottery.com.

Table of Contents

Contents

Meet Hilda

Chapter One: Introduction to Carving

Chapter Two: Tools

Chapter Three: Inspiration

Chapter Four: The Projects

1. Serving plate - sgraffito
2. Sink tidy - Mishima inlay
3. Jug - faceting
4. Candle holder - piercing
5. Hanging planter - fettling
6. Utensil jar - carving agateware
7. Bottle vase - combing
8. Serving tray - carving and impressing
9. Wall tiles - geometric carving
10. Noodle bowl - carving during throwing
11. Mug - faceting
12. Mini cactus planter - sgraffito on glaze
13. Planter - carving
14. Cylinder vase - sgraffito
15. Serving bowl - organic carving
16. Initial coaster - sgraffito using printed template
17. Cup - multi-layered carving of a slip-cast form
18. Stem vase - etching
19. Salad bowl - relief carving
20. Pie dish - wire cutting

Index

Additional information

NGR9781782218524
9781782218524
1782218521
Carve Your Clay: Techniques to Bring the Pottery Surface to Life by Hilda Carr
New
Paperback
Search Press Ltd
20200519
144
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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