How to Make Pottery

An art like pottery-making , which is nearly as old as the human race, is naturally approached with some degree of reverence. One thinks of its old masters in various lands and ages - how they were content to spend a lifetime in the study and practice of it. There is, however, another thought that comes to mind- that this art, like every other, had to have its beginning. Moreover, every potter, from the primitive man who first realized that clay which held water could be moulded into portable vessels for like purpose, to the artist potter of to-day, has learned the first steps of the craft. It was this thought that encouraged me to study the beginnings of pottery, and that leads me to offer this book to those who would also start clay-working, with no other qualification than the wish to learn how to make pottery.