Ingredients

Ingredient Amount
Whiting 9.50
Ferro Frit 3124 44.50
F-4 Feldspar 20.00
Zinc Oxide 5.50
Bentonite 7.50
EPK Kaolin 5.00
Silica 8.00
Add Amount
Zircopax 9.00
Red Iron Oxide 0.50

Instructions

Published in "Expanding Your Palette in Mid-Range Firing" by Yoko Sekino-Bové, in the Jan 2011 issue of Ceramics Monthly.


Bentonite is typically listed as an addition to recipes, but in larger amounts it contributes appreciably to the amount of alumina and silica in the recipe and is therefore included along with the clays in the list of the main ingredients.