Books and Pit Firing DVD

Learn about pottery for cooking - how to make pots for cooking, and how to cook in them!

Published September 2014 by the American Ceramics Society

Chapters include:

• Types of clay
• Advice for the Potter
• Advice for the Cook
• Oven Ware
• Stovetop Ware
• Ware for the Microwave
• Serving Ware
• Preparation Ware
• Storage Ware

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Learn the secrets of successful pit-firing!

In this 60-minute DVD I share with you everything I have learned over many years of trial and error with this exciting but often frustrating firing method. I'll show you how to shortcut the "trial and error" process.

• How to make and use terra sigillata
• How to burnish with a stone
• How to prepare your pots for firing
  
• What to use for fuel
• What chemicals will create color in pit firing
  
• Watch the process of loading and firing
  
• Find out what effect the different chemicals and materials had on the finished work.

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