eBook Eco-conscious Pottery Colour
A guide to colouring ceramics with scrap metals, glass, plant ash and clay
Commercial metal oxides normally used to colour pottery are among the least environmentally friendly pottery materials. But what if it was possible to colour ceramics without using these? This book will show you how!
Learn four innovative eco-conscious ways of creating colour in ceramics by:
Recycling scrap copper wire into verdigris, and rusty iron into iron oxide.
Repurposing the colouring oxides in scrap glass.
Making pottery glazes from plant ashes containing naturally occurring metal oxides.
Using metal-rich clays to colour glazes.
Includes 80 stoneware pottery glaze recipes made with eco-conscious colourants (fire to 1260 °C / cones 7- 9).
Perfect for those new to pottery and experienced Potters who want to learn how to colour their ceramics more eco-consciously.
The book is in PDF format and is delivered via a digital download.
A guide to colouring ceramics with scrap metals, glass, plant ash and clay
Commercial metal oxides normally used to colour pottery are among the least environmentally friendly pottery materials. But what if it was possible to colour ceramics without using these? This book will show you how!
Learn four innovative eco-conscious ways of creating colour in ceramics by:
Recycling scrap copper wire into verdigris, and rusty iron into iron oxide.
Repurposing the colouring oxides in scrap glass.
Making pottery glazes from plant ashes containing naturally occurring metal oxides.
Using metal-rich clays to colour glazes.
Includes 80 stoneware pottery glaze recipes made with eco-conscious colourants (fire to 1260 °C / cones 7- 9).
Perfect for those new to pottery and experienced Potters who want to learn how to colour their ceramics more eco-consciously.
The book is in PDF format and is delivered via a digital download.
A guide to colouring ceramics with scrap metals, glass, plant ash and clay
Commercial metal oxides normally used to colour pottery are among the least environmentally friendly pottery materials. But what if it was possible to colour ceramics without using these? This book will show you how!
Learn four innovative eco-conscious ways of creating colour in ceramics by:
Recycling scrap copper wire into verdigris, and rusty iron into iron oxide.
Repurposing the colouring oxides in scrap glass.
Making pottery glazes from plant ashes containing naturally occurring metal oxides.
Using metal-rich clays to colour glazes.
Includes 80 stoneware pottery glaze recipes made with eco-conscious colourants (fire to 1260 °C / cones 7- 9).
Perfect for those new to pottery and experienced Potters who want to learn how to colour their ceramics more eco-consciously.
The book is in PDF format and is delivered via a digital download.