5 Free Books on Pottery, Claywork and Glazing in BEACONSFIELD, Western Australia for sale

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1. The Potters Craft: A Practical Guide for Studio and Workshop, by C.F. Binns in 1922 with 225 pages. "Most natural clays need some kind of cleansing for there are almost always foreign substances present.
2. The Manual of Practical Potting: Specially Compiled by Experts, and edited by Charles F Binns in 1922 with 200 pages.
3. A Handbook of Practical Pottery for Art Teachers and Students, by Richard Lunn in 1910 with 84 pages. "This book is primarily intended for beginners and students, and so may be found, in places, very elementary by those who know more about practical potting. It is mainly based upon teaching given by the author to practical Pottery Classes at the Royal College of Art, and other Schools of Arts and Crafts."
4. The Clay Workers Handbook, by Alfred Searle in 1921 with 389 pages. The present volume embodies an attempt to sift out from this mass of material such information as an extensive experience in clayworking has shown to be of value, and to express it, as far as it is possible to do so, in language which will be understood by any intelligent man."
5. Clay Work: A Handbook for Teachers, by Katherine Lester written in 1908. The object of this book is: first, to help teachers in acquiring the technique of clay-working; second, to offer several types of clay-work from which selection may be made. Detailed description of the processes of working, with numerous illustrative photographs are given; also photographs of finished models which, with a few exceptions, have been modeled by pupils from ten to twelve years of age in the public schools.
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