A collection of 35 quilt squares that are suitable for use independently as sun catchers, box lids, or perhaps as the sides to a candle holder. These patterns are appropriate for incorporating into larger designs such as mirror borders or combined together to make larger glass "quilts." All of these patterns are within reach of the beginning stained glass artist, yet can give the experienced artist a means to experiment with color, texture and design.

This book contains everything you need to start learning glass blowing today. The author puts everything she knows about glass blowing into simple, understandable language so that everyone can easily learn all there is to know about making beautiful glass. Inside the book, you will learn:

The History of Glass Blowing

The Properties of the Glass: So your art looks great and stands the test of time.

All Necessary Glass Blowing Equipment: Learn how to get your glass blowing hobby started with the right gear.

How to Use Your Tools: Great pointers on how to make your best artwork with your new tools.

Important Safety Tips: How to keep all your fingers and eyebrows intact

Most Important Glass Blowing Principles: How to take the mystery out of the art.

How to Make Your First Piece: All the keys you need to make your first piece of glass artwork.

How to Add Decorative Art: Learn how to turn normal glass into a stunning piece of art.

How to Make Glass Beads: Tips for making beautiful beads that anyone will love.

Cane Making Secrets: Your beads will look as stunning as they possibly can with these pointers.

How to Make Glass Pipes: Yes, keys to even making pipes as well.

and much more

If you've ever been interested in glass blowing, but didn't know where to start, then I encourage you to learn from the author's experience and get started on the right footing. It contains everything you need to know to help you make amazing glass objects today

Almost a century ago, Annette McConnell Anderson, a New Orleans society woman, vowed that her three sons would become artists. Turning her back on bourgeois life and abetted by her skeptical husband---a grain merchant---she bought twenty-eight acres of woodland on the Mississippi Sound. Beside a sleepy bayou, in the shade of towering pines and magnolias, she opened an art colony, one of the first of its kind in the South.

Backed by his mother's passion for art, her oldest son Peter Anderson founded Shearwater Pottery. Yearning "to make Shearwater synonymous with perfection," he drew the entire family into his adventure. His brothers, "Mac" and Walter, made strange, wonderful pieces, though Walter Anderson eventually left the pottery studio to search for his own artistic path.

Drawn by the exquisite work of Shearwater Pottery, the authors discover that painting, poetry, and storytelling---much of it by strong, unforgettable women---are still an essential part of the family's daily life. Intimate diaries, letters, and poems lead the reader into a stormy, passionate, sometimes heartbreaking past. Meticulously researched and compassionately written, "Dreaming in Clay on the Coast of Mississippi" gathers one family's eternal legacy of wisdom and beauty, the healing power of art, the consolations of writing and of memory, and the spiritual treasures given us by the natural world.

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This book walks you through two different methods of creating designs on your custom art tiles: ONE: Using clay slips to create designs, including tube-lining, stenciling, sgraffito and more, and TWO: working with presses (cookie presses, etc) to create unique relief designs on your own handmade tiles. The custom tiles you see on the cover of this book were created by me, using the methods described in the book. You will also learn how to make a plaster mold of your newly-created prototype tile, so you can produce as many identical tiles as you wish. Filled with practical tips and short-cuts I've learned over the years, plus dozens of (b/w) photos, this book will guide you every step of the way. You should have basic knowledge of working with ceramic clay, modeling tools and kilns.

Discover Proof Positive of the Other Side
It's the essential-and seemingly unknowable-question that has haunted mankind since the beginning: What happens after we die? In Life After Death: Some of the Best Evidence, renowned physicist Dr. Jan W. Vandersande surveys evidence for an afterlife and finds a lot of the observed physical phenomena both credible and compelling.
Intended for skeptics and believers alike, Life After Death condenses more than 100 years of literature and testimony-including the author's own psychic experiences as a longtime member of a psychic circle-to sort out the astonishing from the fraudulent. The investigation gives readers a front-row seat to seance rooms to experience such marvels as direct voice, ectoplasm and materializations-messages and events, he shows, that are directed from beyond the grave. As the book makes clear, the occurrences during such episodes, though fantastical, can't be dismissed as mere fantasy or fraud.
Through historical accounts, photographs and personal experience, this engagingly written work adds to a growing body of evidence for the existence of an afterlife that's increasingly difficult to ignore.

This easy to follow how-to guide shows you step by step how to create your own unique raised relief art tiles using the 'slip blanket' method developed by Henry Chapman Mercer, founder of The Moravian Tile Works in the late 1800's. Dozens of (b/w) photos plus practical tips guide you through every step of the process, including how to make a plaster mold of your finished piece. Begin creating your own custom art tiles today--Here's how

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An Unabridged Printing With Text And All Figures Digitally Enlarged. Originally Titled: Glass Blowing And Working For Amateurs, Experimentalists, And Technicians, With Numerous Illustrations. Chapters Include: Glass Work In Miniature - The Blowpipe And Bellows - Minor Tools And Appliances - Glass; Rods And Tubing, Gauging, Storing, Preservation, Cleaning - Various Methods Of Working And Blowing Glass - Examples Of Special Articles For Laboratory And Other Uses - Coloring And Modifying Materials, Etc. - Aging, Disintegration, And Decay Of Glass, Etc. - Fancy And Decorative Articles Made At The Blowpipe - Glass Making At The Blowpipe And On A Laboratory Scale - The Bibliography Of Glass - Index - (At The End Of The Book There Are Some 30 Pages Containing 60 Recipes For Flint Glass Making, A Second Edition, With An Index).

The papers in this volume derive from the proceedings of an international symposium held at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in June 2006 in connection with the exhibition "The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases." The themes of the exhibition--vases executed in bilingual, coral-red gloss, outline, Kerch-style, white ground, and Six's techniques, as well as examples with added clay and gilding, and sculpted vases and additions--are the touchstones for the essays. More than twenty papers by renowned scholars are grouped under such general rubrics as Social Contexts for Athenian Vases in Special Techniques; Conservation, Analysis, and Experimentation; Artists, Workshops, and Production; and Markets and Exchange.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Showing Their Relation To The Primitive Forms Of Solar And Nature Worship.

This is a reprint of the rare original "concise edition" by Bolas with some additions.

"My Dad, The Folk Potter" is a young reader's picture book that shows the complete process of making traditional pottery using methods 19th Century Catawba Valley potters used, including hand-digging local clay, glazing, firing in a ground hog kiln and selling of wares. The book is written from the perspective of a fourth-grader as he watches his dad "turn and burn." Pottery buffs of all ages will appreciate both the educational and artistic value of this book.

These seventeen papers, from a colloquium held at the XIVth UISPP Congress at the University of Liege in 2001, combine archaeological, ethnographic and technical approaches to present the current state of research in the study of pottery technology. The colloquium's aim was to highlight key topics, such as clay preparation, shaping techniques, decoration and firing and post-firing treatments, whilst addressing problems in methodologies. Ethnographic contributions present case studies from the Amazon, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Gambi and Senegal; two papers present methods of technical identification; nine papers reconstruct and interpret pottery manufacturing processes in archaeological contexts. These examine assemblages from Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Mauritania and the Levant. Nine papers in English, the rest in French; all have English and French abstracts.

For thousands of years an enigmatic and astonishingly beautiful piece of Roman art has captivated those who have come in contact with it.Made before the birth of Christ, the Portland Vase, as it is called, is renowned for both its beauty and its mystery.

In "The Portland Vase," Robin Brooks takes us on a vivid journey across Europe and through the centuries, as this delicate piece of glass, less than ten inches in height, passes through the hands of a stunning cast of characters, including the first Roman emperor, Augustus; a notorious tomb raider; a reckless cardinal; a princess with a nasty gambling habit; the ceramics genius Josiah Wedgwood; the secretive Duchess of Portland; and a host of politicians, dilettantes, and scam artists.

Rich with passion, inspiration, jealousy, and endless speculation, the story of The Portland Vase spans more than two thousand years and remains one of the art world's greatest enigmas.

Originally published in 1899, this handbook contains, in a form convenient for everyday use, a comprehensive digest of the information on Working Glass by heat and by abrasion and supplies concise instruction on the general principles of the subject. Contents: Appliances used in Glass Blowing Manipulating Glass Tubing Blowing Bulbs and Flasks Jointing Tubes to Bulbs, etc.; Forming Thistle Funnels Utilising Broken Glass Apparatus; Boring and Riveting Glass Hand-working of Telescope Specula Turning, Chipping, and Grinding Glass The Manufacture of Glass