This guide for china painters and potters covers the basic techniques of working with lustres. The book explores the endless design opportunities that lustre work makes possible, covering all aspects of lustre preparation and applications, explaining exactly what lustre is, the hazards involved in handling the materials and the surfaces on which they can be used. Topics covered in individual chapters include applications, firing, colours, stencilling, resist work and special effects such as marbelizing and dispersing. Late chapters give a stage-by-stage account of individual pieces for the reader to make, and a useful section advises on how to revive pieces that have gone wrong.