This practical guidebook teaches all the skills you need to start creating beautiful ceramics. Step-by-step photographs and clear instructions guide you through the core techniques for making, decorating and firing pottery, and inspirational projects allow you to put your skills into practice and develop your creativity.

# Learn about types of clay and basic forming methods such as pinching and coiling. Gain confidence in throwing and turning clay and develop your decorating and firing skills

# Discover progressive projects as they teach a new skill, from simple coiled vases with painted decoration to marble-clay boxes with transparent glazes

# Follow easy instructions to decorate and add texture to your vessels with inlays, slips, sgraffito, feathering, burning and resist techniques