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Orange Red Iron Glaze
Hi,
A while ago I was looking through the book "Glazes cone 6" by Michael Bailey, and I saw a picture of a beautiful rust red platter and it's glaze recipe. So naturally I had to mix that glaze.... which turned an ugly brown for me, naturally.
On the next page is a suggested test method of starting with the base and adding 1% increments of red iron ox starting with 0% and ending with 23%. I was determined to get this color and texture so I did all of that work.... All brown. I was disg
It's an oxidation glaze. I used to think you had to slow cool to get those lovely oranges and iron reds but there is a forum member who did some testing comparing slow and fast cools here and got lovely results with a fast cool. Re the colour you got, long thread here, this Bailey glaze is brought up starting on page 2 of the thread. (spoiler alert: it's probably your iron)