Author: Alistair Young
This informative, practical book, written by Alistair Young, looks at a variety of ways that pottery studios have been set up, including examples that detail studio layout and type of work produced from potters from around the world. Setting Up a Workshop discusses requirements of both the specialized studio and those suited for more general pottery production. It presents valuable information for those setting up their first studio, and more experienced potters will be interested in how others have developed their studios.
Setting Up a Pottery Workshop covers common processes such as the storage and preparation of materials, along with the business plans for successful marketing, selling work, and accounting considerations. Also includes plans for the production of homemade tools and equipment, which can often be made at a fraction of the cost of commercially available products.
This book is a handy guide to setting up a pottery workshop. It covers not only fundamental questions such as types of premises, design and layout of the workshop, equipment and materials, and how to make simple tools, but also questions of marketing and promotion, legal considerations and finance. To illustrate these points, the author discusses how various potters have tackled the issues raised and gives illustrations of a wide range of different workshops. The book draws on the experiences of an international group of artists, and so it will have universal appeal. Out of print for more than a year, this revised second printing is a must for those setting up a pottery for the first time, as well as the established potter who is experiencing difficulty in one of the areas covered, e.g., promotion and marketing.
Setting Up a Pottery Workshop features artists and potters from England, United States, South Africa, Australia, and Europe. Also included are appendices including craft organizations, ceramics magazines and periodicals, and a list of clay and equipment suppliers.
Price $24.95 
1. Workshop Planning
- Working space
- Clay mixing
- Wedging
- Production
- Firing
- Glazing
- Packing finished work
- Display
- Safe workshop practice-general
2. Materials
- Clay mixing and recycling
- Preparing clay bodies from raw materials
- Commercial clay mixers
- Dough mixers
- Filter presses and pan mills
- Pugmills
- Clay storage
- Clay recycling
- Glaze materials
- Storing glaze materials
- Safe workshop practice-materials
3. Workshop Equipment
- Workbenches
- Turntables and whirlers
- Potters' wheels
- Momentum wheels
- Kick wheels
- Electric wheels
- Ergonomics
- Extruders
- Spray Guns
- Hand Tools
- Rolling boards
- Brushes
- Slip trailers
- Tools for the wheel
- Scales and weighing
- Safe workshop practice-equipment
4. Kilns
- Fuel types
- Kiln building
- Electricity
- Electric kiln
- Gas
- An inexpensive gas kiln
- Gas trolley kiln
- Raku kiln
- Oil
- Oil-fired salt kiln
- Wood
- Through-draught wood kiln
- Anagama kiln
- Safe workshop practice-kilns
5. Business
- Business plan
- Finance
- Costing your work
- Business analysis
- Legal restrictions-planning regulations
- Types of business
- Taxation
- Health and Safety
- Contracts
- Copyright
- Insurance
- Business practice-book keeping
- Selling
- Publicity and marketing material
6. Potter's Workshop
- FeÉ Halsted-Berning and the Ardmore
- Gail Bakutis
- Kate Malone and the Balls Pond Road Studios
- Andy Blick
- Esias Bosch
- Richard Dewar
- Geoff Fuller
- Peter Hayes
- Simon Hulbert and Brook Street Pottery
- Walter Keeler
- Anna Lambert
- Janet Mansfield
- Tina Vlassopulos
Price $24.95
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