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Piepenburg: Beginning Wheelthrowing (VHS)
Manufacturer: Pebble Press
Axner Number: A993702
Shipping Weight: 0 lbs., 9.44000 oz.
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Format: VHS
Run Time: 53 minutes
Studio: Pebble Press
Language: English
Dimensions: 8.0" x 4.75" x 1.2"
Shipping Weight: 0.59 lbs.
This is a step-by-step video reference guide to learning how to work on the potter's
wheel. Visual close-ups of techniques, detailing precise hand and tool positions,
provides an invaluable supplement to "hands-on" learning. It helps viewers
to understand wedging, centering, opening, raising the wall, shaping from the
cylindrical form, throwing open and close shapes, trimming right side up, use
of throwing ribs and a whole array of other significant fundamentals that enable
them to advance their skills in one of the world's oldest yet most contemporary
art forming processes. |
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A to-the-point demonstration and explanation of how various ingredients can be integrated to formulate handbuilding and wheel-throwing clay bodies and glazes capable of withstanding the thermal shocks of the Raku firing process.
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Robert Piepenburg explains the theory and the technical aspects behind the sequence of events employed to achieve the glossy richness of a white crackle glaze and to effectively realize the full color spectrum of a copper matt surface patina.
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This video shows the fabrication of a top-loading soft firebrick
kiln. From preparation of the foundation, layout of the floor, bricking of the
walls, built-in shelf supports, burner port, use of target bricks and construction of a brick top.
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Presents the groundwork for beginning practitioners of simple, primitive fired clay by presenting the basic procedures and follow through of the wood firing of several works, of various shapes, in a reclaimed oil drum.
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