A Potter's Book

An older, influential book from a potter and scholar that still has relevance today. A never ending source of inspiration for me.

AWESOME!

Pottery is a hobby of mine, and here is a lot of practical information, accumulated in the East, setting up and running the Leach Pottery, and so on. He covers design, building, materials, glazes, decoration, firing and even includes one of the pottery's profit and loss accounts.It's a small book but concise, the photos are quite small, blurry and in black and white but his sketches are clear and helpful. I got the new book because second hand ones go for silly prices - seems to be a "collectable" book. Modern pottery books tend to be larger, much better illustrated on better quality paper.As well as the technical side, there is fascinating history and background. He writes about his time in Japan, and other pottery traditions, including English slipware. Of course, sometimes a little out of date - he talks about progressing from wooden barrels to galvanised buckets for storing glazes! A good read and one reference to return to.

It was a practical handbook about ceramics so that is what I used it for.

good condition

For anyone interested in Leach as a ceramicist this re-release is great news. Anyone who has visited the pottery at St Ives will have been captivated by his work and will probably want to know more - and this book fills in a lot of the gaps.

Libro saggio. Pieno di buoni consigli