A Super Simple Analogy to Help You Understand Glaze Structure
Understanding glaze structure isn’t hard. Ceramic glazes consist of three main components: glass formers, fluxes, and refractories. If you can … Read More
Tag: sintering
In heating clays and glazes, a solid-state reaction where particles stick together permanently, and mass can be considered fired.
Ceramic Stains: The Easy Way to Create All the Colors of the Rainbow on Your Pottery
Nowadays, ceramic artists are spoiled. It wasn’t that long ago that getting the colors and surfaces you wanted took a … Read More
Seth Charles: Inner and Outer Landscapes
Honesty of materials and process, as well a sense of place, have guided Seth Charles’ sculptural and functional wood-fired ceramics. … Read More
Clay Culture: Are Kilns Obsolete?
Environmentally-friendly method of manufacturing ceramics may reduce companies carbon footprint, and render kilns obsolete for some applications and products.
The way … Read More
In the Studio: Shigaraki Surfaces
In the Fall of 2015 I began testing clay body additives, looking for alternatives to glaze for finishing my ceramic … Read More
Techno File: Bisque Firing 101
The fundamentals of bisque firing include whether to fire to a soft or hard bisque, the stages of firing and … Read More
Clay Culture: Ceramic Biotech
April Gocha and Jessica McMathis
Titanium Dioxide Stops Germs
by April Gocha, PhD
Washing your hands is one of the best things you can do to prevent … Read More
Archive Article: Graze Crawling: Causes and Corrections
If a fired glaze looks like beads of water on a glass tabletop, you’re looking at crawling. The same forces … Read More
