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Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes

Innovative, Lab-Tested Techniques and Recipes
By Gabriel Kline and Bill Collins
Series: Mastering Ceramics
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Create stunning, food-safe glazes for functional pottery. Take your ceramics to the next level with Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes, the essential guide for potters who want to create beautiful, functional pieces designed for everyday use. A collaboration between noted potter and author Gabriel Kline and chemist... Read More
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The only book that presents scientifically tested, food-safe glaze recipes, Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes offers potters reliable formulas, detailed testing insights, and practical firing techniques, making it essential for anyone looking to create beautiful and safe ceramics.

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Create stunning, food-safe glazes for functional pottery.

Take your ceramics to the next level with Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes, the essential guide for potters who want to create beautiful, functional pieces designed for everyday use.

A collaboration between noted potter and author Gabriel Kline and chemist Bill Collins, PhD, this unique book explores the science of glaze formulation, explaining essential testing techniques, equipment, and materials. It demystifies the science of food-safe ceramics while empowering artists with reliable, studio-friendly methods.

Discover a variety of recipes, techniques, and tips for creating vibrant colours, unique textures, and glossy or matte finishes—all tested for safety and reliability in functional pottery.

Comprehensive guidance on glaze safety: Learn essential information about toxic materials, leaching, and testing glazes for food use.

Step-by-step tutorials: From mixing and applying glazes to troubleshooting common issues, this book covers every stage of the process.

More than 100 beautiful food-safe glaze recipes and combinations: Tested and approved finishes suitable for mid- and high-fire temperatures and clays.

Inspiration from master ceramists: Explore stunning examples of food-safe pottery to spark your creativity.

Whether you're a beginner looking to make your first food-safe bowl or an experienced potter wanting to expand your glaze library, Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes will become your go-to resource for creating ceramics that are as functional as they are beautiful.

The Mastering Ceramics series is for artists who never stop learning. With compelling projects, expert insight, step-by-step photos, and galleries of work from today's top artists, these books are the perfect studio companions. Also available from the series: Amazing Glaze, Mastering Hand Building, Mastering Kilns and Firing, and Mastering the Potter's Wheel.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760392287

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 30 October 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Illustration: 300 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 794g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

Gabriel Kline is a professional potter who has taught ceramics classes for nearly two decades. He is the founder and director of Odyssey ClayWorks. Gabriel serves as the resident artist program director, fostering connections with university programs and up-and-coming artists from around the world. He also directs Odyssey's community volunteer and non-profit work, including partnerships with various substance abuse and recovery programs as well as Creative Forces, a collaboration between the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, and state arts agencies. He is the author of Amazing Glaze and Amazing Glaze Recipes and Combinations and is the co-author of Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes. His work has been featured in numerous publications, including The Complete Guide to Mid-Range Glazes and the 500 series. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina. The co-author of Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes, Bill Collins, PhD, is a professor of chemistry at Fort Lewis College in Colorado. He joined the college in 2011. With a background in synthetic organic and materials chemistry, his research focuses on developing and analyzing chemically durable glasses for ceramic applications, bringing a rigorous scientific approach to the testing and formulation of food-safe glazes. Before joining Fort Lewis, Dr. Collins was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, studying graphene and carbon nanotube chemistry. He lives in Durango, Colorado.

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