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Na2O×Al2O3×6SiO2—feldspars contributing sodium (and potassium), primarily as a high-temperature flux.

Although glaze crawling – when glaze recedes away from an area in the firing, leaving bare clay – is often … Read More

In ceramics, one person’s fault is another person’s fancy. While crazing is technically a glaze fault, it can also be … Read More

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

Testing standards are important to both the studio artist and his or her customers. While we may give specific instructions … Read More

Rocks

Rocks can be classified into three types: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. The igneous rocks most useful to potters are felsic … Read More

Reticulation glazes form a group of specialized glazes that show patterns of heavy crawling, or reticulation. The patterns look similar … Read More

Feldspars are minerals of varying composition commonly used by potters. Feldspars form a glassy, white surface when fired high enough. … Read More

Imagine a ceramic glaze that fires perfectly at both cone 10 and cone 6, in reduction and oxidation, and in … Read More

In my last firing, I made a pot that satisfied me like none before. It was one of those miracles … Read More

It is not surprising that Lisa Hammond has been described as the best
woman potter working in Britain at the moment. … Read More