Decorating Techniques

Book excerpt: Methods of decoration -- Materials -- Tools -- Decorating soft, damp pieces -- Impressions and textures -- Textures -- Paddling -- Inscribing -- Agate -- Agate paste -- Preparing Egyptian paste -- Sculptures using Egyptian paste -- Egyptian paste jewelry -- Decorating leather-hard pieces -- Fluting -- Faceting -- Open-work 1 -- Open-work 2 -- Carving -- Cloisonné -- Relief -- Repeated relief -- Preparing engobes -- Engobes applied with a paintbrush -- Paper resists -- Combing -- Marbling -- Oxides using engobes -- Burnishing -- Incrusting -- Mishima -- Decorating dry pieces -- Oxides -- Sgraffito on oxides -- Wax resists -- Other resists -- Sgraffito on engobe -- Decorating bisque-fired pieces -- Under-glazing using ceramic pencils -- Under-glazing using pigments -- Cuerda seca -- Decorating glazed pieces -- Resists -- Over-glazing -- Oil-based over-glazing -- Superimposing glazes -- Sgraffito.