Low Fire Glaze Recipes
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Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Low Fire Glazes. This lens is no way finished but I was getting so many visitors to my empty, unpublished placeholder lens I felt I needed to put up something while I worked on completing it. So happy glazing....
Low Fire Glazing
Low fire glazing is a great way to get bright colors as the excessive heat of a high fire kiln eats away at the coloring potential of oxides, stains, underglazes, and glaze. Low fire does have its drawbacks. It is not as durable as higher fire work and more porous. Many advances in glaze chemistry has increased the pallet of colors and textures that are acheivable to low fire clay artists.
Low Fire Glazes
- Glazes - Cone 04-06
- The Clayart archived posts on low fired glazes.
- Earthenware Glazes (1000°C to 1150°C)
- Three recipes
- Programmable Low-fire Glaze Recipes
- Cone 04 glazes
- Augusta State University Glaze List-PDF
- Mostly cone 06-04 glazes
- C/04 Green Glazes
- A pottery blog featuring a series of green cone 04 glazes, photos and recipes included.
Great Low Fire Glaze Books on Amazon
Majolica Glazing
- Majolica Overview
- A look at majolica by Linda Arbuckle, complete with glaze recipes.
- Cone 06-04 Base Glaze
- A discussion and recipe for Majolica.
- Majolica & Lowfire Recipes
- From Linda Arbuckle
Great Majolica Books on Amazon
Raku Glazing
- Cone 06-08 Raku Glazes
- Mary Humphrey's Raku Glazes from Michigan Mud 2005
- Gary R. Ferguson Raku Glaze Recipes
- Three pages of Recipes
- Raku Glazes
- Six Raku recipes
- Raku Glazes
- Four Raku Glazes used by potter John Lockett
- Augusta State University GLAZE LIST
- A downloadable pdf of Raku recipes.
Great Raku Books on Amazon
Helpful Resources
- Pyrometric Cones (Orton Standard) Temperature Equivalent Chart
- What cone is your clay? What cone is your glaze? What does this mean?
More Low Fire Glaze Information
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Suggestions and Feedback
I welcome your feedback. Would you like something added? Know a good link or book? Did I manage to misspell something? Did you find a dead link? Let me know, afterall this Kiln Goddess isn't all knowing ;-)
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KilnGoddess
Sep 12, 2008 @ 3:10 pm | delete
- That really wasn't a very professional answer you got. I low fire glaze may or may not be safe. Some low fire glazes contain lead, some don't. Some lead bearing glazes fall within safe guildlines for lead release some don't. I think i would want to know and get a better answer. Of course your mug might make a lovely pencil holder instead of a drinking vessel if you choose not to inquire. Until you get an answer i wouldn't drink an high acid liquid out of the mug such as O.J. or tomato juice.
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Woody Kellum
Sep 11, 2008 @ 8:54 pm | delete
- My daughter made me a beautiful ceramic coffee mug. As to the toxicity of the glaze, she was told that there "wasn't any more risk than any other low fire glaze". Do I need to ask her more specifically about the glaze ingredients (aka looking a gift horse in the mouth), or are "low-fired" glazes inherently safe?
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kim
Aug 19, 2007 @ 8:27 pm | delete
- thank you for access to badly needed information,this site really helped,the info on majolica was just what i needed.thank you.
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