Glaze tests
Those first trial pots and test tiles fired a couple of weeks ago have now had some glazes applied, along with some Cobalt and Copper oxide stripes.
I need to pay attention to those glazes on the left which appear to have a tendency to run, else I will end up with glazed kiln shelves!
Porcelain pots
For those of you who have ever used the wheel to throw a pot you will be aware that porcelain is a very special challenge. Porcelain has very special qualities when fired that make it desirable, it’s pure white lustre and translucence. However, to throw porcelain requires skills in; patience, delicacy and mud wrestling!
I started slowly over the past month and my first pots have been created by using a white stoneware body, but this week I moved onto porcelain. I must say that I was surprised that having not thrown porcelain for over a year I was pleased with the results.
This has however taken its toll, with large quantities of the temperamental white clay ending up in the recycling bin due to a number of collapses and failures.
I hope to have some finer pieces in glazed white stoneware and porcelain at the end of August and put the pictures on the web site.