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I have been trying to find a good picture on the internet of the glaze I want.  I'm inserting a link to a photo.

 

https://instagram.com/p/4y6pkrwZmU/?taken-by=adriftpottery

 

For those of you that are not familiar with Instagram, it is like the crack of visual reference.  If you want to look at pictures of pottery, people making pottery, using pottery, it is all there.

 

This is the color I am trying to get to.  So I want to make some pots with a red stoneware, dipped in white stoneware slip, and with a honey yellow glaze.  Going for a earthenware tin glazed slipware look.  I am assuming this is possible.  Just having trouble finding a yellow glaze anywhere close enough to start with.  I would really appreciate any direction that can be provided.  I have already tested several glazes.  None near what I am trying for.  Also, I have tested my white stoneware slip over the red stoneware clay.  That looks good to go.   For anyone interested in this type of work, learning to coat the red stoneware  in the white slip after being made was a tough learning curve.  Lots of cracked, broken, collapsed work. Pots must be the right level of dryness and slip cant be to watery.  Making the slip is work intensive also.  I have it down now and am paying my kids to do it.  Putting it through a screen manually just takes a lot of time.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

 

 

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Think one has been posted here relatively recently..Min??

Rt a search.

Good on you getting kids involved, you may have to wrestle them off the wheel so you can use it soon.

Can get a fluid slip without too much water using a titch of sodium silicate.

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To me that looks like two glazes. But I could be mistaken. Looks like a red iron based glaze underneath with a yellow glaze on top that is being dulled and some of the red tones are coming out. Have you tired emailing the person who put up the post/pin and asking for the recipe?

 

Edit: The author answered you, dunno if you saw this or not.

 

thank you, for this glaze I add 3% red iron oxide and 0.5% manganese dioxide with some red clay body and it gives a lovely deep honey colour. Give it a try on a small batch and see what you think, happy experimenting :-)

 

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thank you, for this glaze I add 3% red iron oxide and 0.5% manganese dioxide with some red clay body and it gives a lovely deep honey colour. Give it a try on a small batch and see what you think, happy experimenting :-)

 

 

 

So, is that for 100 grams, 1000 grams, 4000 grams or 8000 grams of red clay body?  Experiment, indeed. 

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Wow, thanks everyone.  Great response.  I will try both glazes.  when I try the glaze from Fetish Ghost I will reduce the RIO, then also try it with the RIO and Manganese Dioxide that Adrift Pottery uses.  I like to try three or four similar glazes before deciding on one. I also test with varying amounts of colorants.  It is amazing at the variations.  A glaze like this I will use alone.  But I normally take into consideration how  a glaze works with the other glazes I already use.  After testing 6 clears there was really only one that would work.  Two crazed, two wouldn't work over underglaze, one wouldn't work with colorant, etc.... I could use two or three clears, buy why when you have one that does it all.  I was really surprised by the number that crazed when the slightest bit to thick.

 

Babs, thanks for the hint about the sodium.  I was hesitant to add any as after it is mixed and sieved I divide it.  Part will be just for slipping the outside of red stoneware, Part will be for a thick, creamy, decorative finish.  I want to make some cups that look like they have frosting spread over them or folded fabric. 

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