Handmade Tiles: Designing * Making * Decorating (A Lark Ceramics Book) FROM THE PUBLISHER
Written for the beginning tile maker, the accomplished artist, and the tile lover alike, this comprehensive, easy-to-understand, and loving treatment of the art of handmade tiles provides a wealth of practical information, a touch of history, and a stunning array of color photography. Included are more than eighty "how-to" photo-graphs of tile-making steps, techniques, and tools, as well as dozens of color photos of work by some of today's best tile artists.
The author, Frank Giorgini, gently guides the reader through setting up a workshop, selecting materials, purchasing and making tools and equipment, and designing, fabricating, firing, decorating, and installing tiles. Everything that the beginner needs to know is considered -- making relief tiles, underglaze and glaze decoration, slip trailing, inlay, sgraffiato, shellac resist, and impressing, as well as mosaics and the tile installation process. A chapter on the history of handmade tiles has been contributed by Joseph Taylor, president of the Tile Heritage Foundation.
SYNOPSIS
"Guide the reader through each step of the tile-making process, with detailed, easily understood explanations."--Ceramics Monthly. Easy-to-understand, and an enthusiastic treatment of the art of making tiles that provides a wealth of practical information, from design and formation, through decoration and installation. "The definitive guide to tile and how to make it. This is a book that demands your perusal."-The Tile Heritage Foundation.
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