title: The Potter's Studio Clay and Glaze Handbook: An Essential Guide to Choosing, Working, and Designing with Clay and Glaze in the Ceramic Studio (Studio Handbook Series)
author:  Jeff Zamek 
description: <DIV><strong><font face="Verdana">Zamak, Jeff. <font color="#00acef">The Potter&rsquo;s Studio Clay and Glaze Book. </font>Quarry: Quayside. 2009. c.176p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-1-59253-522-4. pap. $24.99. </font></strong><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8px"><strong>ART INSTRUCTION<br /></strong></span></font><span style="font-size: 12px"><br /><b><font face="Verdana">Zamak, a successful ceramic consultant and author, provides a rich trove of advice for the serious hobbyist and the professional ceramicist. He offers preventive troubleshooting techniques and information about clay body formulas, glazes, studio layout, and planning a ceramic business. -- Library Journal, July 2009</font><br /></b></span></DIV>
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  EMMANUEL COOPER &  DEREK ROYLE
  
  This complete handbook on making and applying 
  glazes for studio pottery covers every aspect of the 
  subject, from both the technical and aesthetic 
  standpoints. Unlike the industrial potter, who 
  strives to achieve perfect quality control, the studio 
  potter aims to take advantage of those “uncontrolled” 
  effects, such as specking, mottling, crackling, and 
  running, which give the work its individual visual 
  and tactile appeal. This book shows how best to 
  use the correct chemical and mineral ingredients to 
  obtain these attractive effects.
  After a brief outline of the different sorts of 
  pottery and how they can be classified, the book 
  gives detailed information on glaze materials; 
  different methods of formulating glazes — 
  colored, clear, matt, and opaque; scientific structure 
  and formulas; firing; and the production of special 
  effects such as red, crystalline, and crackle glazes, 
  tenmoku, oil spot, and raku. It discusses oxidation 
  and reducti