Free Resources for Potters

Leaf Ash Glazing: A Guide to Sustainable Pottery Glazing with Fallen Leaves will show you how to make beautiful, high-fire pottery glazes from plant leaves.

Fallen leaves are locally available, abundant, and continuously renewed by plants - the perfect sustainable ingredient for pottery glazes!

For those new to ash glazing, and experienced Potters who want to learn about creating more sustainable pottery glazes.

In this book you will learn:

• How leaf ash glazing works and why it’s great for Potters.

• How to identify, collect, dry, and burn leaves into ash.

• How to make a leaf ash pottery glaze in 4 easy steps.

• How to fire a leaf ash glaze to stoneware temperatures.

• 36 leaf ash glaze tests, made with one simple recipe.

Pottery Glazing With Plant Ash will show you how to make a pottery glaze from the ashes of any plant using one simple recipe.

Perfect for those just starting out in pottery and experienced Potters who want to learn more about the ancient tradition of plant ash glazing. This book will teach you,

• How ash glazing works and why it is such a great resource for Potters.

• How to work with plant ashes safely.

• How to make your own plant ash pottery glaze, from any plant, in 6 easy-to-follow steps.

• How to add colour to your glaze using the trace minerals and metals naturally occurring in plants.

• What many common plants look like when made into a pottery glaze, with 60 different glaze tests, created over years of research.

Make your own pottery glazes with minimal harm to humans, animals and the environment.

This book will teach you:

1. What eco-conscious pottery glazing is, and why it matters.

2. Glaze ingredients to avoid.

3. Glaze ingredients to use.

4. How to create colour in glazes in 3 environmentally friendly ways.

Included in the book:

• A simple two-part framework you can apply to assess the harm caused by different pottery glazing materials.

• The step-by-step process of making your own pottery glaze.

• 17 eco-conscious high-fire (stoneware/ porcelain) glaze recipes. 10 of which are compatible with the ‘raw glazing’ technique.

• How to make your own metal oxides from scrap metal.

• An easy to read summary of the 10 steps to eco-conscious pottery glazing.

  The book is in PDF format and is delivered via a weblink.

30 Simple Ways: to make your pottery practice more ethical and sustainable.

Making an eco-friendly pottery practice doesn't have to be complicated. This book contains 30 simple ways of making a pottery practice more eco-friendly in 4 sections;

1. Ingredients - which pottery ingredients to use and which to avoid

2. Practises - eco-friendly ways of working with clay

3. Tools - using eco-friendly tools for crafting and decorating your clay.

4. Business - ways to improve the ecological impact of pottery business, including sections on digital and financial activities.

Included in the book:

• 1 eco-friendly stoneware casting slip recipe made with paperclay to prevent cracking in your work.

• 4 eco-friendly stoneware temperature glaze recipes including one made with wood ash, one special recipe for raw glazing, and one coloured naturally without the use of oxides.

• 16 case study examples of simple ways to implement eco-friendly pottery practices

• An easy to read summary of the 30 simple ways to make your pottery practice more ethical and sustainable.

• Watch a video of 30 Simple Ways: to make your pottery practice more ethical and sustainable

  The book is in PDF format and delivered via a weblink.