Fireplace Ash Glazes: How to Clean Out Your Fireplace and Spray Wood Ash Glazes on Pottery
Mark Issenberg shares some ceramic glaze recipes that utilize fireplace wood ash to create an ash glaze surface. Plus he … Read More
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From High Fire to Mid Range: Changing Kilns Leads to New Decorating and Glazing Techniques
After high firing in a gas kiln for 25 years, Wickford, Rhode Island, potter Harry Spring was forced by circumstances … Read More
Using Wood Ash in Glazes
Wood ash or, more correctly, ash from organic vegetation, has been used as an ingredient for the development of glazes … Read More
Understanding Glaze and Clay Materials
Today, we live in an age of super abundance of ceramic raw materials. Innumerable clays and glaze materials offer us … Read More
Working with Ash in Glazes
An abundance of free wood ash from summer bonfires led Clausen to explore various ways to use this variable flux … Read More
Large Serving Platter
A large serving platter comes in handy for a variety of entertaining needs. My wife and I love to use … Read More
Effective Side Firing
I’ve always loved ash glazes. For a long time, I fired in other people’s reduction kilns, often waiting months in … Read More
Wood Fired Pots Without the Wood Kiln
Wood firing clay is an exciting endeavor and if you ever have a chance to participate in a wood firing, … Read More
Local Color: A Potter Uses Local Vegetation in Ash Glaze Recipes
The late Sandy Vitarelli spent most of her life on tropical islands in the pacific and her pottery reflects that. … Read More
Working Potters: Zak Chalmers
My ceramics degree was only the start of my journey in clay. I knew instinctively that I wasn’t finished with … Read More
