This book combines extensive research with interviews granted by three Santa Clara potters. During the interviews, the author recorded and photographed each step -- from clay pit to market -- in the making of contemporary Santa Clara pottery. Collecting and preparing the clay, making slips and paints, modelling various kinds of vessels, sanding, smoothing, slipping, polishing, decorating, firing -- all are described and illustrated so thoroughly that the reader can experiment with the Santa Clara techniques himself if he wishes.
- ISBN10 0826303226
- ISBN13 9780826303226
- Publish Date 1 June 1975
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of New Mexico Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 114
- Language English