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 This lens is no way finished but I was getting so many visitors to my empty, unpublished placeholder lens I felt I needed to put up something while I worked on completing it.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 

Electric Kiln Ceramics: A Guide to Clays and Glazes

Great Book. Very complete. Highly suggested for all clay artist using an electric kiln.

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Exploring Electric Kiln Techniques

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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 

The New Maiolica: Contemporary Approaches to Colour and Technique (Ceramics)

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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

Great Raku Books on Amazon 

Raku: Investigations into Fire

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Fired Up with Raku: Over 300 Raku Recipes

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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 ;-)

kim

thank you for access to badly needed information,this site really helped,the info on majolica was just what i needed.thank you.

Posted August 19, 2007

Great Clay Gear on CafePress 

Underglaze on Amazon 

A CM Handbook on Underglaze Decoration: Methods and Original Designs

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Liquid Underglaze Decorating Color 12-Pack #1, 12 Assorted 2-fl. oz. Jars/Carton

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KilnGoddess

KilnGoddess
The Kiln Goddess is an artist/potter. She loves working in clay as well as metals, mosaics, and nearly all mediums she tries. She especially loves wheel throwing and...  more