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A Simplified Approach to Glaze & Color Development
The accepted standard for understanding glazes, this book explores glaze and color making in a hands-on way that follows the empirical understanding used for thousands of years. Hopper provides an impressive description of his extensive research into glaze, color, texture, and surface enrichment. It is the perfect practical complement to any glaze theory or process of calculation, including glaze calculation software programs.
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Here is some of what you'll find in The Ceramic Spectrum
Hopper helps eliminate confusion for others through his personal experiences and observations with this medium. Pottery making is a continuum where one generation has learned from previous generations, some as a family pursuit and some through the inevitable seduction of material and process.
The primary intent of The Ceramic Spectrum is not as recipe book, but to demystify an extremely complex subject. Although it has over 500 recipes, all of which work perfectly well and have been widely tested, they are given to suggest parameters in which these glazes develop, to show some of the variables that control both surface and color. This book aims to make available to the student of ceramics—whether beginner, advanced, or professional—an approach to the study of ceramic glaze and color development which does not rely on the use of published formulas, recipes or the mathematics of ceramic glaze calculation.
Glaze making is a process of creative thought. It goes back to the empirical methods, through intuition and observation of materials and fire, in use for nearly 5,000 years before the understanding of glaze formulation by mathematical equation and molecular weight of chemicals.
The aim of this book is to encourage personal curiosity and exploration of materials for glaze and color, so that anyone can develop their own glazes, without pain or anguish, and with a very exciting learning experience.
Ideal for a Glaze Course
The text is perfect as a course outline for either the individual or the group, where shared experiences tend to enhance and speed up the learning process. It should also be usable as a research tool for the understanding and development of colors, which may have previously seemed beyond reach.
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Here is more of what you'll find in The Ceramic Spectrum
Chapter 1: Glaze: A Brief Technical History
Chapter 2: Pigeonholing: The Classification of Ware Types
Chapter 3: Kilns, Temperature and Atmosphere
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Chapter 4: Calculation—What It Does and Doesn’t Do
Chapter 5: Record Keeping and Testing Procedures
Chapter 6: Basic Raw Materials in Ceramics
Chapter 7: Frits
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Chapter 10: Quadraxial Blends
Chapter 11: Fluxes, Flux Variations, Flux Variation Triaxial, and Flux Saturations
Chapter 12: Wood Ash and Glazes for Once-Firing
Chapter 13: Alterations, Glaze Properties, Faults and Defects
Chapter 14: Flashers
Chapter 15: Oriental Style Glazes
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Chapter 16: Materials for Color Development
Chapter 17: Color Testing: Mixing and Blending
Chapter 18: The Ceramic Spectrum
Chapter 19: Opacification
Chapter 20: Textural Variations
Chapter 21: Color in Clays, Slips and Engobes
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