ceramics (3 products)

Bluebirds 1 (Shareware, $5.00)

Animated screen saver features a birdhouse, bluebirds, spring blossoms on a colorful background. Registered version includes additional animation. Matching desktop theme and accessories available at Themestress Desktop Enhancements.

Ceramic Raw Materials 1.00 (Shareware, $19.95)

This book is for collectors, practitioners, teachers and students in need of a technical treatment of clays and glazes in terms of their raw materials - earths, rocks, minerals, oxides, and elements - which is thorough and yet very easy to use. Materials are listed by alphabetized titling; data are thoroughly cross-referenced; special attentions are drawn to varieties of usage in terminologies and emphases throughout are on natural versus man-made origins by way of understanding nomenclatures. Appendixes address the very technical aspects of manufacturing clays and glazes. Easy navigation, search function, print articles, lexicon,web browser, periodic table and personal notes editor. A utilitarian attempt to present data on those materials and techniques most commonly used and most commonly known in a most orderly fashion.

Ceramic Wares 1.0 (Shareware, $19.95)

This ebook is for collectors, practitioners, and students of ceramics who are in need of technical and yet handy referencing to those types and techniques known first by their materials and second by their manufacturers: under the listing for a given ware type, thorough descriptions of physical makeup and techniques for making are followed by names, dates and places of manufacture where exemplary pieces can be found. For example, under AGATEWARE are credits directing the reader to the English manufactorys of Wedgwood, Astbury, and Whieldon as originators and standard-makers for European agateware since the 18th Century. An appendix provides specifically historical treatments for the three most general types -