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Slips, engobes, and underglazes are a lot of fun to use for ceramic decoration and there are endless ways to … Read More

Today, we live in an age of super abundance of ceramic raw materials. Innumerable clays and glaze materials offer us … Read More

Feldspars are important ingredients in clay bodies and glazes. In both applications, their primary function is to supply fluxes to … Read More

I have been messing around with crazing as a deliberate decorative effect lately. Though it is technically a glaze defect, … Read More

Egyptian paste or Egyptian faience is a low-fire mixture of ceramic materials containing clay, sand, colorants, frits, and soluble salts. … Read More

Peach Bloom glazes (aptly named since they look like ripening fruit) are some of the most delicate and beautiful glazes … Read More

An abundance of free wood ash from summer bonfires led Clausen to explore various ways to use this variable flux … Read More

It is especially true in the ceramics world that one person’s fault is another person’s fancy–especially when it comes to … Read More

One of the most interesting aspects of eutectics isn’t how they melt, but how they solidify. When a eutectic mixture … Read More

Ah celadons, how I love celadons. These traditional east Asian glazes can produce translucent colors ranging from soft greens and … Read More