Clay Tile and Vessel Making Basics

Your Tiles Keep Warping. Your Vessels Collapse. You're Not Alone.
You know the feeling. You spent hours on a slab, cut it carefully, dried it patiently. Then you open the kiln and the corners have lifted, or the center has cracked, or the whole thing looks like a shallow bowl when it was supposed to be flat. Nobody told you why. Nobody explained what actually happened between the drying rack and the glaze firing.
This book does.
Clay Tile and Vessel Making Basics is a practical, straightforward guide for potters who already know how to wedge and roll but still lose too many pieces to warping, cracking, and slumping. It's not a general pottery book. It's focused entirely on the two forms that punish small mistakes the hardest: flat tiles and hand-built vessels.
Inside, you'll find clear coaching on:

• Choosing the right clay body so your material works with you, not against you
• Rolling slabs that stay uniform from edge to edge, every time
• Cutting shapes that hold their form through drying and firing
• Drying flat pieces so they actually stay flat, with support strategies that work
• Building vessel walls that stand up rather than slump or tear
• Supporting hollow forms before the kiln, including when to remove internal cradles
• Understanding firing schedules so you can set your kiln with real confidence
• Loading tiles and vessels together without regret or damage
• Diagnosing what went wrong when a piece fails, and salvaging what can be saved