Finding One's Way with Clay Paulus Berensohn Pinched Pottery

Finding One's Way with Clay
Pinched Pottery and the Color of Clay
Paulus Berensohn
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972
ISBN: 0671213245
A Fireside Book
Photographs by True Kelly
157 pages

The binding is in good condition, the pages are clean but lightly tanning. The maroon cover shows light wear. The jacket is toned, edge worn and has edge tears. Good + in good dust-jacket. Hardcover.

This is a craftsman's journal of observation and practice, and a clear, readable, and definitive book on making pots by using the pinch method. There is a wealth of detailed instruction accompanied by hundreds of clear step by step photographs. Included are a long detailed section of Sawdust Firing, a variation of primitive firing (which can be done in the backyard or at the beach); Exercises for the Imagination, to help break out of a creative rut; "beloved bowls"; and an especially extensive and important section on the color of cclay, in which ways of adding color to wet clay and blending colored clays together are explored. (#00002552)