Potter's Book Of Glaze Recipes

This books has a lot of recipes and very useful information for potter. The only downside is that the recipes don't have a lot of comments other than maybe the appearance and general observations. The thing that I really wish the recipes would discuss is the toxicity of the materials. For example, a midnight blue glaze recipe calls for 28% Barium Carbonate. Barium Carbonate is highly toxic in its powder form and if it's not encapsulated properly in the recipe with other encapsulating materials, there could be an imbalance in BaO that could leach into food for foodware. It's much safer to use Ferro Frit to source barium. Therefore, I think this book is not really appropriate for somebody who doesn't know about the glaze chemistry or the materials too well. This book is a good reference once you have some more knowledge and understanding of why you would pick the materials and how you would use them.I think this book is dated from 1980 when people didn't have a lot of awareness regarding chemical toxicity and how you can get cancer due to the exposure to heavy metals. Lead was just discovered to be toxic even though it's a favorite flux to use in pottery for a long time. It's kind of astounding to read the glaze safety section and the lead frits are still recommended for use. Not sure how many people would buy your pottery if you mention that it contains lead these days.

I absolutely love it. This has so many recipes and helpful advice. I would recommend it to any new potter looking to make glazes!

A great book, lots of detail and information

This book is a great reference for those who are interested in mixing their own oxides for making custom glazes. Why spend a ridiculous amount of money for pre-made when you can mix up something better? This book is packed with recipes for a wide range of firing temperatures.

This book is so informative with regard to making glazes to apply to your pottery before firing. There are formulas for low fire, mid firing and high firing. Many of the formulas have pictures depicting what your results should be. But as all potters know - you should still make those test tiles!

Very important for pottery

This book is great for anyone starting out to make their own glazes. It has recipes for all temperature ranges. This book gives you standard recipes for lots of colors and gives you hints on variations.

I am thrilled with this new book I recently purchased, I have had Emmanual Cooper's other books on glazing and recipes - and found them most informative and the glazes pretty true to explanationI also have found that they are quite stable - we fire in the higher 1260.C upwards catagory and the sometimes glaze recipes unless worked out correctly can be very unstable and uninteresting.All in all a very worthwhile book and easy to use, a definate "MUST HAVE" for your collection

This is an excellent source of glaze recipes. Well illustrated and a lot of recipes. Recommended.

Very disappointed with the layout of the book. With tonnes of white spaces around pages (no doubt, necessary for a good layout/design) the images of sample glazes are tiny and very poorly printed on poor quality papers. Can't believe quality publisher can totally overlook such a crucial factor in book design.

A really useful book with some wonderful recipes.

use this book a lot- constantly trying out new glazes on my experimental ceramics .Highly recommended. What more can I say! I

Brilliant book, the second time I've bought it because someone stole my first copy!!

I love this book, although I have to say following these recipes does not necessarily lead to the expected results! But that's pottery!

Cooper's outstanding glaze recipes in a handy edition

useful

The book was for a gift and arrived with a ripped front cover. (See photo)Very disappointed, especially for the price of this book.

Very interesting book with great pieces of information and inspiring recipies :D

Inspiring writer

This is THE glaze book, first one we're told to get when learning glazing, really good and easy to use.

great

E. Cooper, the author, is well known in Japan.His glaze recipes are the creal of his talents, imagination, andexperienced. Following its book, I myself made some glazes formy pieces. They are successful. Yuki

Brilliant