The ultimate illustrated guide for sourcing processing and using wild clay.Potters around the world are taking to the local landscape to dig their own wild clay discover its unique properties and apply it to their craft. This guide is the ideal starting point for anyone from novices improvers and experts to educators and students who wants to forge a closer bond between their art and their surroundings.Testing and trial and error are key to finding a materials best use so the authors tips drawn from long experience in the US and Japan but which can be applied to clays anywhere provide an enviable headstart on this rewarding journey. A clay might be best suited to sculpture and tile bodies throwing clay bodies handbuilding and slab bodies or simply be applied as a glaze or slip.