Thursday, May 3, 2012

Flying Rabbit! and a White Glaze


a floating plate, with flying rabbits! altho a bit blurry,  ca. 1996? (Heorot Pottery, aka me)
I came upon this out there in cyberspace, and since I was thinking of a white glaze, decided to add it to this post so that it won't be photo-less,

So, the white glaze that is the best I've ever used is from Rusty Kurenda, of Saskatoon, Sask., who developed it and shares it freely (to nice people). She is rigorous in her testing standards, freezing it, immersing it into boiling water,...  and through all of that, it doesn't craze.  The other nice thing is that it doesn't have zinc in it, so the colors of the glaze stain decoration don't burn out or go a weird brown.

Prairie Pottery Satin White, Cone 6 Ox
50 Feldspar
6 Flint
19 Whiting
7 Frit 3134
16 Kaolin
12 Superpax

2 Rutile, (to take it a bit off-white)


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