How to Use CMC Gum to Make a Glaze Brushable and Stampable
CMC gum is a ceramic glaze additive that can be used to help improve brushability in glazes that are mixed …
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Ceramic Stains: The Easy Way to Create All the Colors of the Rainbow on Your Pottery
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Although glaze crawling – when glaze recedes away from an area in the firing, leaving bare clay – is often …
