How to Make Pottery

About this eBook

Author

White, Mary, 1869-1952

Title

How to make pottery

Credits

Charlene Taylor, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

TP: Technology: Chemical technology

Subject

Pottery

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 64281

Release Date

January 13, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Notes
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.How to Make Pottery
5. 5.To My Husband
6. 6.PREFACE
7. 7.CONTENTS
8. 8.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
9. 9.LIST OF FIGURES
10. 10.CHAPTER I THE CLAYS AND TOOLS — Tools
11. 11.CHAPTER II HAND-MADE POTTERY
12. 12.CHAPTER III WORKING ON THE WHEEL
13. 13.Methods of Decoration — CHAPTER IV METHODS OF DECORATION — Dish for Candy with Ring Design — To Decorate a Small Bowl with Incised Design of Maple Seeds
14. 14.CHAPTER V THE GLAZE AND HOW TO APPLY IT — To Glaze the Inside of a Piece of Pottery — The Outside Glaze and How to Apply It — Gray-Green Mat-Glaze — Pale-green Mat-Glaze
15. 15.CHAPTER VI POTTERY FOR BEAUTY AND USE — Dark-Green Fruit-Bowl — Candlestick, Thumb Design — Bowl for a Lamp — Wall Jar for Plants or Flowers — Dutch Dish for Candy — Rose-Bowl with Moth Design — Flower Candlestick
16. 16.CHAPTER VII HOW TO MAKE A PLASTER MOULD — A Bowl-shaped Mould of Plaster — Rose-Bowl Started in a Mould
17. 17.CHAPTER VIII THE MAKING OF A TILE
18. 18.CHAPTER IX THE KILN — THE OPEN-FIRE KILN
19. 19.CHAPTER X BASKET-COVERED POTTERY — Indian Pottery Bowl Suspended with Raffia — Green Pottery Jar Inclosed and Suspended with Brown Rattan — Jar of Flemish Pottery Inclosed with Pale-Green Rattan — Green Pottery Bowl with Covering and Handles of Green Rattan — Three-Handled Bowl for Plants or Flowers
20. 20.CHAPTER XI INDIAN POTTERY
21. 21.CHAPTER XII MODERN AMERICAN POTTERY

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