Luminous Clay
Working with Bone China and Porcelain Paperclay
$47.20
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2025
Summary
A contemporary guide to creating beautiful, translucent ceramics.
Porcelain and bone china are known and prized for their fineness, delicacy, and translucence, but can be difficult to use and pose particular problems for the potters and ceramic artists using it.
In Luminous Clay, bone china expert Angela Mellor aims to demystify these clays, encouraging more ceramists to explore these exciting mediums. The book explains a new way of working with bone …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781789943894 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1789943892 |
| Author: | Angela Mellor |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Herbert Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 620g |
| Dimensions: | 244mm x 188mm x 14mm |
| Series: | New Ceramics |
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Critics Review
This book is an excellent source of guidance and reference for those wishing to push their limits. – Jackie Harrop * Chiltern Potters Guild *[Angela Mellor] has become the foremost expert in translucent bone china and paperclay, and in this book she shares all that knowledge with the reader. * Anglian Potters *
About The Author
Angela Mellor
Angela Mellor started working in bone china in 1991. Moving to Australia in 1995, she conducted research at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, and completed an MA at Monash University, Melbourne in 2000. During this time she pioneered the use of bone china paperclay, gaining honourable mentions in Japan and Korea. Angela set up a studio in Perth in 2000 and was awarded a Crafts Council Grant to work with a lighting designer, culminating in a solo exhibition at Craftwest. She returned to the UK in 2006 to work in her studio in Cambridgeshire.
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