![]() ![]() ![]() It is much more what I’m looking for and I think I might have found at least one glaze that I love and want to use. In there I found a recipe for a shiny base glaze (potash feldspar 27, whiting 21, china clay 20 and flint 32) fired to 1260 degrees centigrade and I’ve been trying it out. Just before Christmas, I bought Linda Bloomfield’s new book on glazes, called ‘Colour in Glazes’. What I was looking for was a shiny glaze but all the ones I was making were rough and scratchy. It is a gorgeous colour but the crackle is no good if I am making tableware. This is an image taken from an earlier blog post. Every glaze I made crackled, so to compensate I thinned the glazes down until they flowed like water, which succeeded in getting rid of the crackle but the glazes were not as they should have been. I found it to be a bit like scrabbling around in the dark and not being able to find the light switch. When I started making glazes for the first time in the summer of last year, I bought an Emmanuel Cooper book of glaze recipes and began from there. One of the tasks for the winter has been to develop a set of glazes that I feel are mine. ![]()
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