I want bright glazes for these garden pieces and so have been trawling the books....
I have already tried one base glaze from Greg Daly's book, with different oxides and stains. Some of these crazed on the ES40 and Ashraf Hanna clays, so Dave suggested a different recipe with Potash Feldspar replacing the nephthelene syenite and frit, but with more kaolin. I have tried this too. Then I went on to a transparent stoneware glaze recipe with added stains only for yellow, orange and red. Looking back at some earlier issues of ClayCraft magazine, to articles by Linda Bloomfield, I read them with the new eyes of interest in glazes. I have culled recipes for satin matt purple (David Leach) and Tangerine (Jeannine Vrins). The test tiles have joined their cousins on the shelf and in the kiln waiting for firing. Not long now!
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August 2021
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