Glazes
Glaze recipes, written as charges in parts rather than percentages, because that is how a bucket is actually weighed out. Each one records the base, the materials, the cone it was fired to and the surface that came back — including the surfaces that came back wrong.
Cone 6
≈ 1222 °C 2 entries- 6 A five-material cone 6 clear glaze that does not craze on stoneware A clear glaze sounds like the easy one. It is not: clears that are perfectly transparent also tend to craze, because the alkaline… Stoneware
50 minutes - 6 A magnesium satin matte for cone 6 that is hard enough for tableware Matte glazes have a bad reputation for cutlery marking, and the reputation is deserved for the ones built on excess alumina or on… Stoneware
55 minutes
Cone 10
≈ 1305 °C 3 entries- 10 Celadon at cone 10: colour from thickness, not from iron The most common mistake with celadon is adding more iron to get a deeper green. It does not work. Celadon colour is a function of… Porcelain
1 hour 15 minutes - 10 Copper red: the reduction window is the whole recipe Copper red is not difficult to mix — this recipe has nine materials and one of them is the colourant. It is difficult to fire. The… Porcelain
1 hour 30 minutes - 10 Shino: a glaze that is mostly feldspar and mostly technique Shino looks like a beginner's glaze — white, matte, a bit rough — and it is one of the hardest glazes to make well, because almost… Stoneware
1 hour 10 minutes
Entries are ordered coolest firing first. A section that looks short is a section whose remaining entries are still scheduled — nothing is published before its firing date.