Alfred University Fundamentals of Ceramics

Twelve Lectures explaining the science behind ceramic materials and firing them - everything but glaze making.

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01  Geology

02  Raw Materials and Minerology

03  Fluxes

04  Fillers

05  Water

06  Particle Orientation

07  Drying

08  Kiln Firing

09  Ceramic Tape

10  Slip Casting

11  Slips and Engobes

12  Clay Bodies

These lectures cover just about every topic other than Glaze making.  Reading each of these lectures have greatly improved the quality of the work people do at our studio.

Sample Illustration from Lecture 11 Slips and Engobes

Sample Illustration from Lecture 2 Raw Materials and Mineralogy

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Permalink Reply by Tom Humphries on October 29, 2015 at 2:43pm
Working my way through these, some good stuff here Norm, thanks!
Permalink Reply by Joseph Fireborn on November 1, 2015 at 11:30am

Thanks for posting these. Will get through them this week.

Permalink Reply by Dave Hodapp on July 16, 2016 at 12:31pm

The links do not work, you get the following 404 message:

Alfred University 404 Error Page

We're very sorry... but the document you're looking for is not on any of our servers.

Permalink Reply by Norm Stuart on July 16, 2016 at 11:37pm

If George Lewter or someone else can provide a place to upload these files, I'll upload my copies. They're quite good, but too large for email.

Dave Hodapp said:

The links do not work, you get the following 404 message:

Alfred University 404 Error Page

We're very sorry... but the document you're looking for is not on any of our servers.

Permalink Reply by Robin Cherfane on July 15, 2017 at 5:55am

Hi Norm

Its a shame the links are not working. "Can't find server". Any way of getting these?

Permalink Reply by Norm Stuart on July 15, 2017 at 10:37am

Someone will need to volunteer a Dropbox or other website to host the files and I'll upload them again.

Permalink Reply by Robin Cherfane on July 16, 2017 at 7:38am

I see, I don't have either or I would. Ok thanks for responding.

Permalink Reply by Stacy Jo Scott on October 7, 2017 at 12:58pm

This looks like great information! You can share it using this folder if you'd like. Let me know if that doesn't work. 

Permalink Reply by Norm Stuart on October 7, 2017 at 10:27pm

Stacy - I just uploaded the Alfred Education files to your MediaFire FileDrop.

Post the link for people to download the files and you're all set-up.


Stacy Jo Scott said:

This looks like great information! You can share it using this folder if you'd like. Let me know if that doesn't work. 

Permalink Reply by Stacy Jo Scott on October 8, 2017 at 1:35pm

Awesome. What a great resource! Thanks for sharing it. Here's the link to the shared folder.

Permalink Reply by Paul Tebbatt on October 23, 2017 at 11:15am

Thanks for this.

Permalink Reply by Haidar Mahdi on October 19, 2020 at 2:12pm

Hi Norm. Im a ceramic artist from sweden, Stockholm. Iv red your material several times, amazing material! Tanks a lot. 

I wonder if a can ask you a question in a private message? 

Kind Regards Haidar Mahdi 

 

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