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Everything you needed to Know about Ceramics but were afraid to ask! Why on Earth Do They Call It Throwing? A great period article concerning the origin of words used by potters. by Dennis Krueger Stefan's Florilegium Cooking with period pottery includes recipes Stefan's Florilegium Pottery wheels http://www.regia.org/pottery.htm Kiln Safety from Pottery Making Illustrated by Jeff Zamek Respirators from Pottery Making Illustrated by Jeff Zamek
English and European Pottery
"A Collectors History of English Pottery" Griselda Lewis, Viking Press,
1969 "A Guide to English Pottery and Porcelain" R.I. Hobson r738 B77
British Museum, 1923 "English Ceramics" Stanley Fisher r738 F53e Hawthorne Books, Inc.;
1965 "English Pottery" Bernard Rackham r738 R11 Scribner & Sons, Inc. 1924 "European Ceramic Art" William B. Honey Faber and Faber Inc.; 1949 "History of Pottery" Emmanuel Cooper 738.09 C78h St. Martins Press;
1972 "Medieval English Pottery" Bernard Rackham r738.R11m Faber and Faber "Pottery in England from 3500 BC to 1750 AD" K.J. Barton 738 B28P
A.S. Barnes and Co.; 1975 "The English Country Pottery" Peter C.D. Brears r738.3 B74e Charles
E. Tuttle Co.; 1971 "Medieval Pottery in Britain AD 900 - 1600" M McCarthy and C. Brooks
Leiscester University Press; 1988(an archeaological text, with
diagrams. Not many actual photographs) "The Secular Spirit; Life at the End of the Medieval Period"
Metropolitan Museum of Art 709.02 N42s Dutton; 1975 (Many examples of
Medieval potery from a wide range of cultures.) "Three Books of the Potters Art" N. Picollopasso q738.2 p591t (taken
from the notebooks of a medieval Italian potter) "From Viking to Crusader" Roesdahl & Wilson "Medieval Pottery in the Yorkshire Museum" Sara Jennings The
Yorkshire Museum; 1992 "Approaches to Archeological Ceramics" Carla M. Sinopoli ISBN
0-306-43575-6 "Freedom of Clay and Brush Through Seven Centuries in Northern China:
Tz'u - Chou Type Wares, 960-1600 AD" Yutaka Mino University Indiana
Press; 1980 "Ceramic Art From Byzantine Serres" Demetra Papanikola-Bakirizis,
Eunice Dauterman Maguire and Henry Maguire University of Illinois Press,
1992 "Acqumanili; Oggetti Medievali Per Uso Sacro e Profano" Franco Maria
Ricci ISBN 88-216-0331-81982(while this has to do with bronzes, often
potters copied in clay what they saw in bronze.) "English Slipware Dishes: 1650-1850" Ronald G. Cooper 738.37 C78e
(for those who do not accept 1600 at the cut off date for the SCA) "The Archeology of Ritual and Magic" Ralph Merrifield New Amsterday
Books 1987 390.094 M55a ISBN-0-941533-26-3 (A scholarly work, with many
photos of pots in situ, this work shows many of the more unusual uses
medieval pottery.) Ceramic Decoration: "Pottery Decoration" by
Thomas Shafer, New York: Watson-guptill, 1976. "The Craft and Art of Clay" by Susan Peterson, Paramus, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 1992. "Maiolica, Delft and Faience" by Giuseppe Scavizzi, New York: Hamlyn
Publishing Group, 1970 "Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Lead-Glazed Relief Tiles" from
North Devon in Journal of the British Archaeological Association 3 (22).
Keen, Lawerence. 1969. "Catalogue of Medieval Lead-Glazed Earthenware Tiles in the department of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British_Museum I & II." British Museum Publications: London. Eames, Elizabeth 1980 "Medieval_Craftsmen: English_Tilers." University of Toronto Press: Buffalo. Eames, Elizabeth, 1992. "Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts." New Amsterdam Books: New York. Basing, Patricia, 1990. Eames, Elizabeth: Irish
Medieval Tiles: Decorated Medieval Paving Tiles in Ireland with an
Inventory of Sites and Designs in a Visual Index. Circa 1250-1550. Royal
Irish Academy Monographs in Archaeology, Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson
St., Dublin 2, 1988, ISBN 0901714623. Eames,
Elizabeth: English Tilers, Medieval Craftmen Series; University of
Toronto Press 1992. ISBN 0802077064. Paperbound. 72 pages, 43 colour and
41 B&W Illustrations. Covers ovens, tools, molds, techniques, many
examples of embossed and inlaid tiles, as well as shaped pattern tiles.
Contains the only surviving wooden tile stamp. Very pretty book!. Eames, Elizabeth: English Medieval Tiles; British Museum, Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985. Contains many of the
same illustrations as the English Tilers book by the same author, 72pp.
Lacks the tool illustrations but has the surviving stamp depicted in the
English tilers book. Mainly a rearrangement of the above. color and b&W.
PP. Grafton, Carol Belanger: Old English Tile Designs for Artists and
Craftspeople; with 161 Illustrations. Originally published as Mediaeval
English Pavingtiles, in 1937, by Lord Haberly (Oxford, Basil Blackwell,
1937). Dover original edition 1984. 161 B&W illustrations, 128pp. 8 3/8
x 11". Unprovenanced but said to be mostly from the Oxford region. Liebgott, Niels-Knud: Kakler, Hovedtraek af kakkeloven historie ca.
1350-1650.1972. Concerns the making and construction details for Kakler
which are the deep relief oven tiles standing ovens are made from.
Nationalmuseet, Kobenhavn. ISBN 874807061. 39pp. paperback. Some
excellent designs, knight on horseback for example. Some are made by
turning cylinders and cutting them in half, then building the border
around them and decorating. Sherlock, David: Medieval Floor Tiles in Suffolk Churches; Suffolk
Historic Churches Trust, paperbound, no date but post 1980. Possibly
reachable through the The Old Rectory, Chattisham, Ipswich IP8 3PY.
47pp. 157 oftentimes very pretty designs drawn in dark brown on a
parchment colored paper. With complete notes. Stopford, Jennie: Recording Mediaeval Floor Tiles; Council
for British Archaeology Practical Handbook 10, 4.70GBP, 112 Kennington
Road, London SE11 6RE, ISBN 1872414036. 46 page paperback with a few
illustrations of tiles. Short Bibliography. Stopford, Jennie: Modes of Production Among Medieval Tilers; Medieval
Archaeology 37, 1993; pp. 93-108 with notes. Van Lemmen, Hans: Decorative Tiles Throughout the Ages, with 40 full
color plates; Crescent Books, Crown Publishers, Inc. 225 Park Ave.
South, New York, NY., Bracken Books 1988. ISBN 0517679604. Very large
format book. Only a few medieval tiles in full color,quickly goes to
later Renaissance Majolica tiles. About 90 pages. Giorgini, Frank: Handmade Tiles - Designing, Making, Decorating; Lark
Books, Asheville, N.C., USA, ISBN 0937274763. $25. 1994, 144 very well
illustrated color pages including how to make a tile press, tools, and
many examples with complete instructions as to methods for the
beginner. Well worth the money.
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