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A teapot is one of the most important ceramic forms; the ability to make one is a key test of a potter's skill. Its construction requires the mastery of many techniques, whether the piece is thrown or handbuilt. From clay forming to aesthetics, function to design, and practicality to ergonomics, the exercise of building a teapot poses a broad range of challenges for the artist. However, the very limitations of the form are what allow for immense creativity and innovation.
This richly illustrated volume discusses the theory and design of the teapot as well as the numerous techniques for construction. For the beginning potter and the experienced teapot builder alike, The Teapot Book provides a useful step-by-step guide through the entire process of building a teapot, including materials, handle and spout placement, and kiln temperatures. The myriad illustrations also provide fodder for artists in need of new inspirations. There is a section devoted to contemporary potters and their galleries of teapots that will appeal to armchair enthusiasts, devoted collectors, and masters of the form.
From the history of teapots to theories of their construction, from suggestions for their firing to instructions for making a proper pot of tea (warm your pot first!), The Teapot Book contains all the components that today's potters need to tackle this critical piece of their artistic development. This invaluable reference will be of interest to collectors and artists, and its lavish production will tempt beginning potters to approach this rite of passage for ceramicists.
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teapots!!.......2006-07-04
Having only just received the teapot book and scanning it I definitely like what I see. It looks to me like there is some very nicely laid out step by step explanations for making different forms and great tips on putting the infamous teapot together. Cheers, Cheryl
Great book!.......2006-03-24
I have been doing ceramics for five years, and specialize in teapots. This book has helped me immensely, including design and techniques. I highly recommend it.
Teapot Book excels.......2006-03-13
As a potter who make lots of teapots, I bought The Teapot Book and read it with great interest. The tips, illustrations and photos are a great help to me in improving the skills needed to make teapots. This book should be an inspiration to any potter aspiring to make excellent teapots. It will also be of interest to all potters and collectors as well. The book has diagrams, and beautiful full color photos of a teapot being assembled. There are contributions of glazes and tips by various European and American potters. The photo gallery of teapots and short anecdotes about the teapot and potter exhibits a cross sections of many styles of teapots from handmade to thrown. A very well written book.
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Imagine making serving dishes perfectly suited to the food you're preparing--perhaps a cone-shaped bowl on a pedestal, filled with shrimp and corn, with the husks shooting up gracefully. What an impression this would make on your guests...and what a pleasure for your family to sit down to such a beautifully prepared table. With clay, and guidance by a best-selling author who's a real pro at ceramics, it's simple to hand-build stylish, customized tableware that's just like the pieces you covet in pricey galleries. Even beginners will easily follow the illustrated instructions for making slabs, extruding, molding, and more. Every seasonally themed project showcases a complete table setting, with a delicious extra in each--a teapot in one, a pitcher in another--and features a new technique to try out. For more creative inspiration, four top potters share detailed expertise in the special section on surface decoration: they'll reveal the reasons behind their stylistic choices and walk you through the entire process. And, if you're a "rebel" who likes to do it your own way, the book is simply packed with options for adapting and substituting!
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Great resource for potters.......2007-08-06
This a a great resource for the functional potter or ceramic artists. Full of images and inspiration, as well as detailed inspructions of many items. A must have.
Handbuilt pottery book.......2007-01-12
Good pottery book for hand building. Some interesting and workable ideas.
Sparked new ideas for my own work.......2004-08-02
The technical information in this book is excellent: well presented, illustrated and explained. While I agree with the other reviewer that most of the actual projects shown are not fitting with my taste, the ideas and techniques presented have proven helpful to me. I also found myself wishing that the cover art was included in the how-to projects (which it is not). My only other criticism is that darting is not covered, but great examples of it are, so the reader never gets the explanation of how such forms are achieved.
Overall, this is one of the best technique books I've come across. I would recommend it, especially for the hobby or beginning potter. If you have a formal education in the ceramic arts you will know most of these tips already and find the suggested projects lacking in sophistication. It may however spark some new ideas for your own work.
Quirky tableware in an otherwise well-written book.......2001-06-28
I was misled by the cover of this book thinking that the tableware inside would be clean, simple and elegant. I couldn't be more wrong. I find many of the pieces featured looking weird and overly-decorated. Maybe that's what the author means by "distinctive". This is my greatest misgiving about the book. Otherwise, the author did quite a good job explaining the basics of pottery (with helpful tips along the way), guiding the reader on how to make tableware to suit the four seasons, and demonstrating the surface decoration styles of four different artists. There is a glossary at the end of the book and appendices detailing cone-firing ranges and glaze formulas.
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- A new spin on an old song
- Fabulous for the imagination and more!!!
- Beautifully Illustrated and Fun to Read (or Sing!)
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I'm a Little Teapot
Iza Trapani
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A board book version of this favorite nursery rhyme with added adventures.
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A new spin on an old song.......2006-11-04
When my daughter picked this book up at the local library, I wondered if it was just a song book. She was into the whole teapot craze, wanting to have tea parties, singing the tea pot song, etc. What I found when we got it home, however, was a delightful surprise.
The many verses in this song take children through many different cultures on a great exploration. From China to Mexico to outer space! After checking the book out numerous times from the library, I decided to go ahead and buy it. As we'd drive along in the car during the day, I'd hear my two year-old reciting the lines to the book. At night, she would study the book from page to page trying to find the alien, who had surprise appearances throughout the book. When she sat alone, I'd watch her identify boys and girls by the color of their clothes, by the way the wore their hair, by the place she thought they might be from.
This is a very creative book with fantastic illustrations that pull you in with its lyrical flow and excellent rhyme. What a great way to broaden a child's horizons!
Fabulous for the imagination and more!!!.......2006-05-09
Both my daughter (4) and son (2) absolutely love this book. We usually sing it from start to finish and the illustations have little details which you can use as conversation points. My daughter now invents her own adventures for the teapot to add to the numerous ones in the book. The music for this is on the back page which you can either play or sing. Both my children run their fingers over the notes and sing "la la la" as they go. Great for developing an early interest in reading music!
Beautifully Illustrated and Fun to Read (or Sing!).......2006-01-23
We own 4 Iza Trapani books, and this is my favorite (the other books are The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Baa Baa Black Sheep, my other favorite). All of these books are just beautifully done. Ms. Trapani takes favorite nursery rhymes and turns them into entertaining stories that just beg to be sung (she even puts the music on the last page in case you don't know the tune). Her exceptional drawings really add to the fun. My 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter absolutely adore these books and they are short enough that I don't mind reading them every night (only Twinkle Twinkle sort of wears me out singing it). I'm a Little Teapot takes readers all over the world on an imaginative adventure, then ends up back at home among family and friends. It's a beautiful, fun-to-sing story.
Wonderful for toddlers.......2005-09-24
My 2 year old takes this book to bed with her every nap/night and I hear her singing at the top of her lungs along with the book (we've read it to her many times too). It is her absolute favorite book and has provided hours of entertainment.
A great buy for the toddler set!!
Good, not great.......2005-04-27
Judging from most of the reviews here, you'd think that this was the greatest board book ever. Well, it's certainly good, with (mostly) above-average artwork and an interestingly creative idea, but the text itself is subpar--in particular, the rhymes don't scan very well, to the point of making it difficult to read aloud in places.
That said, it's a decent book, and definitely worth considering for the price. However, you shouldn't get it thinking you're getting the world's greatest book for small children ever.
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Hall China Tea and Coffee Pots: The First 100 Years.......2007-01-11
Very extensive collection of pots. There were several I have never seen before in any other publication.
Could be organized in a more user friendly manner, but would still reccomend the book to any Hall collector.
Must have book.......2005-03-19
Yesterday I received this beautiful book on Tea and Coffee Pots that have been produced by the Hall China Company. If you collect Tea and/or Coffee Pots this is a must have book. It has all the Tea and Coffee Pots that the Hall China Company produced from 1903 to today. The just released book by Gary and Paula Barnebey has over 800 color photos in this 240-page book. This is a well written and researched book has an extensive bibliography. The book contains Tables with general color lines produced through the years and availability over time, a color
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Shaped like a little teapot, "I'm a Little Musical Teapot" plays the melody to that favorite children's song when you press the teapot's cheek on the cover. A delightful way to have teapot parties in the bath or pool.
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I'm A Little Teapot.......2007-04-22
Got this for a toddler and she learned the song so easily. She got everyone in the house singing and dancing to "I'm a Little Teapot". It was a great gift!
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- Telling of a Japanese raccoon-dog who learns how to magically change himself to anything - even a teapot
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Furry-legged Teapot: A Unique Retelling
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Telling of a Japanese raccoon-dog who learns how to magically change himself to anything - even a teapot.......2007-09-07
Tim Meyers retells THE FURRY-LEGGED TEAPOT, telling of a Japanese raccoon-dog who learns how to magically change himself to anything - even a teapot. But what happens when he can't change back? His search for his true form will lead him away from home and on an unforgettable journey in this funny, different story which features Robert McGuire's whimsical illustrations.
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OK, not "Literature", but a great message!.......2006-05-15
In the fairly unlikely event that anyone comes looking for this, I felt compelled to toss in my 2 cents.
This is a wonderful book...despite its somewhat "dime-a-dozen" appearance. This is one of my favorite stories to read to 2-year-olds and up. It tells a simple story of an accident happening, and the worry of long-term consequences. Sometimes we can't make everything all better. But the lovely message that friendships between people can be stronger than china teapots is one that all children should learn. It's a beautiful sentiment which can teach about giving and receiving forgiveness, and the value of understanding. These may be just cartoon-drawn Muppets telling it, but it's a story grown-ups should pay attention to as well.
Really, pick this up while you still can...it'll be worth it, I assure you!
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Born in 1869, Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens opened his own office in London when he was only 20 years old and began his career with a series of opulent country houses. The architect of such important commissions as the British Embassy in Washington D.C., in 1925, and the plan for New Delhi, the new capital of British India, in 1912, Lutyens continued throughout his career to design houses in which the vernacular manner adopted by Philip Webb and Norman Shaw in the previous century was developed with originality and wit and with remarkable formal control. As an upholder of the classical language of architecture, Lutyen's achievement was not always appreciated by a younger generation of architects inspired by the modern movement, but the sheer beauty of materials and construction and the inventive handling of historical styles offered by Lutyen's houses makes his contribution to early-20th-century domestic architecture on a par with that of his contemporaries Frank Lloyd Wright and Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
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The classic book of 1913 which helped establish the name of Lutyens in British domestic architecture. It was written by the then architectural editor of 'Country Life'. This book is a handsome reprint of the one that is still very much in demand over 80 years after its publication.
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Cómo criar hijos con actitudes positivas
Zig Ziglar
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La actitud de los padres es esencial en la formación de los hijos. Aquí se proporciona una serie de elementos prácticos que les ayudarán a reflexionar y a darles a sus hijos la educación que los complejos problemas del mundo actual exigen. Para esto se requieren varios ingredientes, entre otros, amor, disciplina, perdón. Aquí usted aprenderá la manera de lograrlo.
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How much bad things are your little ones going to copy?.......2001-08-10
NONE...if you read this book. I have been in three (3) conventions where Zig is one of the main speakers and, believe me, he knows how to steal the show. The "profound statements" that Zig uses to garnish his speeches are as deep as the speech itself. I have 4 books of Zig Ziglar and 3 tape program of about 6 to 12 tapes each. Are you in doubt yet? Let me put it in this way...When God calls Zig to His side it will be a loss for the ones on Earth comparable to Mother Theresa...and you don't have to be Catholic to acknowledge the impact of that moment. I am not Catholic, but it was not her religion, but the person and her believes.
Zig is one of those persons; humble yet powerful.
Now, how much are your kids worth?What kind of knowledge do you want your kids to grasp, Columbine kind of kid's or God-gifted Zig?
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