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An essential guide to low firing and producing natural finishes without using glazes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Burnished pottery in history 2. About burnishing 3. Burnishing with terra sigillata 4. Smoke-firing and black-firing 5. Pit-firing 6. Saggar firing 7. Raku firing techniques: horsehair and naked raku 8. Finishing touches Bibliography List of suppliers Contributing artists Glossary Index

About the Author

Sumi von Dassow makes burnished pottery, teaches at a centre for traditional arts and runs occasional pit-firing workshops. She contributes articles for Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated. Sumi is also the author of Barrel, Pit and Saggar Firing and Electric Kiln Pottery.

Reviews

A must book not only for beginners but also for the experiences if just for the pictures alone
*Kent Potters newsletter, January/February 2010*

well produced, as usual, with many good photographs of the techniques and of the finished works
*London Potters*

A very useful reference work if starting out on burnishing & low fired finishes for pots
*London Potters*