The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes

The Complete Guide to High-Fire Glazes
Author: John Britt
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781600592164

"With recipes for mixing, testing, applying, and firing hundreds of high-fire glazes, this fully illustrated reference will help all ceramists gain a better understanding of glazes and the factors that make them work."--Book Jacket.

The Complete Guide to Mid-range Glazes

The Complete Guide to Mid-range Glazes
Author: John Britt
Publisher: Lark Ceramics Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781454707776

According to Ceramics Monthly, most potters glaze their pieces at mid-range temperatures--and this complete studio guide eliminates the guesswork from the popular process. Along with hundreds of recipes, it explores mixing, application, specific firing and cooling cycles, and much more. See how to boost colors, achieve results that equal high-fire glazing, and stretch your boundaries with new techniques.

High-fire Glazes

High-fire Glazes
Author: Sherman Hall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Color in the ceramic industries
ISBN: 9781574983760

Whether you fire in oxidation, reduction, or neutral - with gas, electricity, or wood - High-Fire Glazes delivers an enormous array of surface possibilities. The recipes in this book have been used and tested by more professional artists, over a longer period of time, than those at other temperature ranges. It's not a matter of status or comparative desirability, but a factor of the reality that the history of studio ceramics in the United States was built largely at high temperatures. And you are the beneficiary of the reliability that comes from such thorough and wide-ranged testing. Professionals and students alike will be able to use this book with success on a shallow learning curve. High heat does not mean high difficulty. If anything, it gets easier and more exciting! We mitigate the risks, and you reap the rewards!

Amazing Glaze Recipes and Combinations

Amazing Glaze Recipes and Combinations
Author: Gabriel Kline
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1589239806

Amazing Glaze Recipes and Combinations includes hundreds of recipes and combinations for every temperature range, all rigorously tested and technically edited.

Colour in Glazes

Colour in Glazes
Author: Linda Bloomfield
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2022-01-13
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1789941172

An essential handbook for studio potters working towards achieving a fantastic spectrum of colourful glazes. Colour in Glazes teaches you all the methods for achieving colour in glazes, focusing on colouring oxides in detail, including the newly available rare earth oxides. Find out about the types of base glazes and the fluxes used to make them in relation to colour response as well as using colouring oxides to achieve depth and variety of colour, rather than resorting to commercial ceramic stains. Discover the practical aspects of mixing, applying, testing and adjusting glazes, and explore a large section of test tiles and glaze recipes for use on white earthenware, stoneware and porcelain fired in electric, gas and salt kilns. This new edition, fully updated and revised, contains advances in technology and new discoveries in the Periodic Table. It is an infallible handbook to achieving the colour you want, and to help you broaden your palette.

Ash Glazes

Ash Glazes
Author: Phil Rogers
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2003-02-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780812237214

Ash Glazes has been designed as an introduction and practical handbook to this glazing technique, covering the history of ash glazes and the practicalities of collecting and testing wood ashes and transforming them into glazes. It will provide inspiration for working potters and delight all those interested in contemporary ceramics.

Copper Red Glazes

Copper Red Glazes
Author: Robert Tichane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Copper compounds
ISBN: 9780873416634

Potters everywhere will welcome "Copper Red Glazes", the ultimate reference for this tricky but stunning glaze. Finally potters can master ancient secrets without expensive and frustrating experimentation. 50 color photos.

Chinese Glazes

Chinese Glazes
Author: Nigel Wood
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780812234763

Chinese pottery has long been esteemed not only for its beauty and delicacy but also for the utility and efficiency evident in the potter's skill.

Amazing Glaze

Amazing Glaze
Author: Gabriel Kline
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2018-12-18
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0760361037

"This book made me fall in love with glaze all over again." —Ben Carter, author of Mastering the Potter’s Wheel Whether you look forward to glazing your work or are guilty of saying "I hate glazing!" Amazing Glaze is for you. Join author and Odyssey Clayworks founder Gabriel Kline on a journey that makes glazing less intimidating and more fun. Start in the "glaze kitchen" where you'll set yourself up for success, then move on to learning the tools and techniques for getting your glaze right every time. Along the way, Gabriel shares dozens of tried-and-true recipes and combinations for both mid-range and high-fire glazes. The recipes and foundational techniques of Amazing Glaze are just the beginning. Learn about layering with slip and underglaze, work with resists, and combine techniques to take your glazing above and beyond. Whether you're after crystalline effects, an elusive red, or a crash-course in applying decals it's all here. A variety of artist features and stunning gallery work from today's top artists will leave you inspired and ready to get glazing.