Ash Glazes

A brief history of wood ash glazes; the growing plant; what is wood ash?; collecting and preparing wood ash; glazes, what are thay and how do they work?; making glazes: testing your ash, what characteristics do you want in your glaze?, mixing the glaze, methods of blending materials, applying the ash glaze, the use of slips with ash glazes, firing the glaze, glaze faults; ash-like glazes without ash; survey of some ash glaze potters; other potters who use ash glazes; ash glaze recipes; ash analyses; molecular weights.