The Essential Pottery Notebook
Publishing Date: US & Canada January 2025, UK & Australia Feb/ March 2025
The Essential Pottery Notebook
“Pottery is a craft that relies on note taking, be it jotting down glaze recipes, combinations of clays for the pots you throw and detailed firing charts. Kara’s Essential Pottery Notebook helps with all these processes, setting out easy to follow guides that will make any ceramicists practice more precise and orderly.”
Florian Gadsby, Potter & Author of ‘By My Hands’
The Ultimate Studio Tool
Keeping accurate records for your making is so important to help take the guess work out of trying to repeat a creation. It means you can replicate things that went well and change things up that perhaps didn’t turn out so great. Helping you get more consistent results and to feel more confident and in control of your pottery making.
After months of research and working alongside The Edward Orton Foundation to understand heat work and its relationship with ceramic material through the firing process - I proudly bring you The Essential Pottery Notebook. Alongside detailed templates to clearly show you what you need to record throughout every stage of the making process. It includes technical glossary about firing, clearly explaining pyrometric cones, how to use them, how to interpret them and how to get the most out of your electric kiln. Plus lots, lots more…
FREE WORKSHOP for the first 200 x PRE-ORDERS! (There are still spaces!)
The first 200 people to pre-order the book will be enrolled onto a FREE 2 hour firing and kiln workshop. I'll be talking you through how to make the most of the templates in the book, explaining the concepts to you in detail and how to relate that to your own making. There will also be a trouble shooting Q&A where you can bring your own firing dilemmas and we can work them out together.
The workshop will be recorded and sent out after if you cant make it live.
To secure your place onto the workshop simply send a screen shot of your receipt to me at karaleighsbook@gmail.com
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With this notebook by your side, you’ll have everything you need in one convenient place to become a more confident potter…
“Kara has created the perfect guide for taking the guesswork out of your making - an absolute must-have”
Hilda Carr, Potter and Author of ‘Carve Your Clay'
“Over more than 30 years I have evolved this type of record for myself… but not quite as clearly organised, if I had had this at the start of my ceramic journey I think it might have made life a lot easier… I love it.”
Kate Malone MBE, Ceràmic Artist
(Original Judge of The Great Pottery Throw Down)
About the author
My searches for a good potter's notebook to use in my own studio and recommend to my students had not born fruit. So I decided to create my own.….
This pottery notebook ensures you remember what you did when you got good results! And just as importantly - what you did when you got bad ones! And with the ever-increasing cost of raw materials, electricity and gas the more we can do to make our work successful and our making processes more efficient the better for our pockets and for the planet!
Check out my other book Pottery for Beginners HERE.
Learn more from me over at my Pottery Club.
"An incredibly useful record-keeper for both new and experienced potters. A must-have for successful firings!"
Leela Chakravarti, Potter, Creator of Leela Pottery
The Essential Pottery Notebook
Publishing Date: US & Canada January 2025, UK & Australia Feb/ March 2025
Pre-order via retailer links below:
