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Pottery remains a favorite at the Denton Arts Jazz Festival, appreciated for its beauty, form, durability and affordability – and the fact that no two pieces are exactly alike. Every potter has his or her own unique style, too, which makes the hunt for something special even more enticing.
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Skutt 1014 GlassMaster Kiln – Furniture Kit for GM1014 Kiln This kit includes one 191/2 full shelf and four 5 posts. Shipping weight is 25 lb….

Paragon Quikfire 6 Kiln – Furniture Kit This kit contains 2 shelves for the Quikfire 6 Kiln….

Skutt KS Series Energy Saver Kilns – 11 dia, 9 deep, Cone 6 Kiln, 115V-1P, 17A Skutt’s Energy Saver KS Series Kilns include the following standard features: Ten-sided design eliminates hot-spots, stainless steel jacket, 3-heat switching, Dawson kiln-sitter, stand and peepholes included….

Throwing American Style Raku Pottery (for the beginner) $29.99 This video teaches the beginning student how to throw Raku and other types of pottery on the potter’s wheel. Your host Robert Briggs demonstrates the techniques quickly and professionally with a sure-fire, accelerated approach! Robert Briggs has worked as a professional graphic and fine artist in the Southwest Missouri area for over 20 years. His attention to the natural surroundings has given him…

Beginning to Throw on the Potter’s Wheel (DVD) $49.00 Learn the throwing techniques that Robin Hopper has developed during his award-winning forty-year career. This comprehensive introduction to throwing on the potter’s wheel features wedging, centering, the throwing of basic forms, and trimming. The video uses multiple camera angles and close-ups to demonstrate what the hands and fingers do at various stages, both inside and outside a thrown object….

Beginning Handbuilding (DVD) $48.00 Graham Sheehan introduces beginning potters to basic hand-building techniques. After showing how to make simple pinch pots, he demonstrates coil and slab building methods using five different projects of increasing complexity. The video features close-ups that provide details about how clay should be prepared, how it can be joined to another piece and how glazes can be used to decorate forms. The …

Smoke Firing DVD with Robert Piepenburg $24.50 Presents the groundwork for beginning practitioners of simple, primitive fired clay by presenting the basic procedures and follow through of the wood firing of several works, of various shapes, in a reclaimed oil drum. Features of clay body selection, clay form recommendations, burnishing, selection of combustibles, placement of pottery, use of salt and copper chemicals for fuming, possible experi…

Alternative Kilns & Firing Techniques: Raku * Saggar * Pit * Barrel (A Lark Ceramics Book) $9.11 Ceramicists searching for new ways to fire their creations now have a wealth of options. Authors James Watkins and Paul Wandless, along with a group of distinguished artisans, demonstrate in detail how to build low-cost, low-tech, yet high-quality kilns. The plans range from an easy, affordable, and versatile Raku Kiln to a unique wood-fueled Downdraft Stovepipe Barrel one. These clever devices ma…

Mastering Raku: Making Ware * Glazes * Building Kilns * Firing (A Lark Ceramics Book) $17.77 From firing to finishing, this is the definitive reference on raku. Ceramists will be informed and inspired by this newly updated, technique-based book with how-to photos and text. It covers such topics as types of clay, forming techniques, firing, glazes, decoration, and kilns and kiln construction. Mastering Raku also includes a gallery of works from around the world along with updated clay and …

The Big Book of Ceramics: A Guide to the History, Materials, Equipment and Techniques of Hand-Building, Throwing, Molding, Kiln-Firing and Glazing Pottery and Other Ceramic Objects $35.00 In this exhaustive introduction to ceramics, all the materials, equipment, and techniques of the craft are presented clearly and accessibly. An easy-to-follow text is accompanied by hundreds of color photographs and schematic drawings that illustrate every material, technique, piece of equipment, and step-by-step demonstration.The book begins with a history of ceramics that covers techniques and s…