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
Tag: soda feldspar
Na2O×Al2O3×6SiO2—feldspars contributing sodium (and potassium), primarily as a high-temperature flux.
In the Studio: Metal Marking on Functional Ware
Linda Bloomfield and Dave Finkelnburg
Testing standards are important to both the studio artist and his or her customers. While we may give specific instructions … Read More
Lichens and Lizards and Leopards, Oh My! Reticulated Glaze Recipes For Wild Ceramic Surfaces
Although glaze crawling – when glaze recedes away from an area in the firing, leaving bare clay – is often … Read More
Technofile: Geology for Potters
Rocks
Rocks can be classified into three types: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. The igneous rocks most useful to potters are felsic … Read More
Subscriber Extra: Reticulation Glazes
Reticulation glazes form a group of specialized glazes that show patterns of heavy crawling, or reticulation. The patterns look similar … Read More
Feldspar: The Potter’s Pet Rock
Feldspars are minerals of varying composition commonly used by potters. Feldspars form a glassy, white surface when fired high enough. … Read More
It Slices, It Dices! Some Simple Glaze Tests Reveal a Ceramic Glaze That Can Do it All (well, almost)
Imagine a ceramic glaze that fires perfectly at both cone 10 and cone 6, in reduction and oxidation, and in … Read More
A New Pot’s Story
In my last firing, I made a pot that satisfied me like none before. It was one of those miracles … Read More
Lisa Hammond: Intuited Grace
It is not surprising that Lisa Hammond has been described as the best
woman potter working in Britain at the moment. … Read More
Understanding Glazes Through Raw Materials: Using Glaze Cores
The objective is to locate one single earth material that alone almost provides the desired surface, and then to add … Read More
