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).

David Drake is recognized as one of the United States' most accomplished nineteenth-century potters. Yet, though his pots-many inscribed with original verse-sit in museums across the nation, he is too often passed over when considering the early foundations of African American poetry. Born in South Carolina at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Drake produced hundreds of pieces while under the surveillance of the enslavers who claimed him and his work as their property. Still, asserts P. Gabrielle Foreman, he is perhaps the only Black person in all of the free or slave states whose literary work was preserved in neither books nor pamphlets nor newspapers. His pots and jars served as pages as well as ceramic vessels. This book examines how Drake's pottery and poetry have inspired visual artists and poets who claim him as an artistic ancestor. It features the Sir Dave (1998) series by artist Jonathan Green, including thirteen paintings that have never been exhibited or published together before. Accompanying and in dialogue with Green's paintings is a twenty-poem cycle called All My Relation (2015) by Glenis Redmond. Praise Songs includes the editor's interview of Redmond and Green and essays by Redmond, Foreman, and Lynnette Young Overby, the artistic director of a 2014 collaboration and performance featuring both Green's and Redmond's work. As one of the first volumes to focus on Drake's legacy as a writer, it also includes an updated compilation of all David Drake's poetic inscriptions. This volume presents the artistic legacy of one of the most well-known Black potters, and one of the most innovative and underappreciated enslaved poets, of the nineteenth century.

Archaeologist James R. cunkle categorizes the primary groups of prchistoric ceramics found in Arizona and describes each in-depth. Includes color insert.

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.

"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.

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

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.

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

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

The book, originally published in 1904, includes the marks used by factories, patterns, workmen, or decorators in America to the time of this book's original printing. The first attempt to describe the marks of American potters was made by Edwin Barber in his Pottery and Porcelain of the United States in 1893. In that book, less than 100 varieties, found principally in earlier wares, were described. Prior to that time, none of the manuals on potter's marks contained any reference to the United States.

Originally published under the title Experimental Glass Blowing for Boys in the early 20th century, this book contains a series of 80 "experiments" designed to teach the basic techniques of lampwork. The book discusses types of glass, how to cut, bend, and stretch glass tubes and rods, sealing a tube, blowing a bubble, joining tubes, how to cut window glass and bottles, boring a hole in glass, etc. The experiments include kids' stuff like squirt bottles, pea shooters and whistles, as well as more practical fare such as a drinking tube, siphon, nozzles, and a spirit level. Over 100 illustrations. At the time of original publication Carleton J. Lynde, Ph.D., was Professor of Physics at MacDonald College in Quebec, Canada.

Un bello manual que explica desde los materiales necesarios y los distintos tipos de vidrio, hasta las diferentes tecnicas de elaboracion, ilustradas paso a paso, de seis tipos de vidrieras: Tiffany, tradicional, collage, falsa vidriera, grabado al acido y vidriera con grisalla.

The earliest vitreous materials in Egypt date to c.4000 BC although the production of glass, faience, frit or 'Egyptian blue' does not really take off until the 18th dynasty. Andrew Shortland combines descriptions of various objects made from vitreous materials with an analysis of the processes and techniques used in their production. His study begins with the raw materials, he describes the processing of the materials and the waste products generated, the production and finishing of objects and their final distribution. Focusing largely on evidence from the city of Amarna, a large part of this volume is taken up with analyses of the structure and composition of the vitreous materials.

A story revealed by tavern, inn, college and other bottles. With a catalogue of bottles and seals from the collection in the Ashmolean Museum.' (BAR 257, 1997)

"Stained Glass Photo Frames" contains 20 full-size patterns of photo frames for stained glass hobbyists. The patterns include two sizes, 4" x 6" and 5" x 7" and a variety of subjects. Children's, floral, contemporary, southwest and seashore are some of the design styles in this book.

STAINED GLASS PRIMER, The Basic Skills offers clear, concise instruction in the tools and skills of leaded glass work, including copper foil techniques. A proven textbook for beginners, used in schools throughout the world. First published in 1971. Over 200,000 copies sold.

A study of the styles of decoration found on the early southwestern pottery known as White Mountain Redware. The White Mountain Redware tradition, an arbitrary division of the Cibola painted pottery tradition, is composed of those vessels which have a red slip and painted decoration in either black or black and white, which when grouped into pottery types have a geographic locus within or immediately adjacent to the Cibola area, and which share a number of other attributes indicative of close historical relationships.

Sir Mortimer Wheeler describes the architecture and town planning, the sculpture and painting, the silverware, glass, pottery and the other rich artistic achievements of the era.