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The Essential Guide to Mold Making & Slip Casting (A Lark Ceramics Book)
by Andrew Martin
from Lark Books

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• The Essential Guide to Mold Making & Slip Casting (A Lark Ceramics Book) (
  This book, which I bought twice by mistake! Is a bit hard to follow. I will try this winter to follow the directions and see what happens! I am very excited to see if it works so I can start replicating some original artwork!

• Mold making and slip casting
  The book was more basic than I expected. It is good for beginners and a useful guide for teachers.

• Not the whole story
  This book seemed to me to be a good start, but maybe was rushed to production. There are a number of significant issues with this publication:
  * Poorly organized - rather than taking you through a step-by-step process for each important phase of mold making and slip casting, the information is scattered throughout. Including information on other artists adds to the value of this book, but detracts from fundamental goal of teaching you how to slip cast.
  * Missing/minimized information - 'Begin... more info

• An Excellent resource book
  This book is well written and shows very good photos. Mold making can be hard and very messy so having a clear idea of what you are going to be doing is important. Andrew Martin shows you step by step how to approach mold making beginning with very simple molds through to complex molds. Lots of lovely inspiring photos from master artists. This is a great book for any ceramics library.

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