I feel for you on the blistering as I have been struggling with glaze craters when using a particular clay and have decided to relegate the remaining supply to outdoor planters and try out some different clay bodies. When it works that glaze is beautiful on the porcelain so if you can solve the blistering you will have some lovely work.
Great tips! Thanks for showing your glazing process, and sharing your firing challenge? I'm curious to know if you had a kiln full of porcelain pieces at the too-high temperature or if you did a test firing first.
Luckily I only had one set of these in the kiln, and a few little flat dishes in the same glaze/porcelain combination. This was actually really helpful because the flat pieces including the plate didn't blister - indicating that could be a temperature issue. But, yes lucky it wasn't a kiln load!
Beautiful! I throw with cone 10 Babu porcelain. I have trouble getting a really white outcome of the clay itself, like the bottoms or many of my pieces are glazed inside but naked outside. Drives me crazy to expect a beautiful white and get gray. I work at a community studio so have no control over firings. I'm wondering if it's because the kiln is filled largely with stoneware and lots of different glazes so the atmosphere is affecting my clay body.
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I feel for you on the blistering as I have been struggling with glaze craters when using a particular clay and have decided to relegate the remaining supply to outdoor planters and try out some different clay bodies. When it works that glaze is beautiful on the porcelain so if you can solve the blistering you will have some lovely work.
Yes, the blistering is so disappointing .. I will experiment with a glazes that fires a little higher.
Another good video thankyou 😊
You’re welcome 😊
Such Beautiful pieces! Id love to try throwing porcelain one day. Thanks for the video!
You are so welcome!
I love the glaze and colour. Isn't porcelain the most beautiful (though so finicky to work with).
It really is!
What were the dimensions of the pieces before they were bisque? Knowing that would help to determine the thickness of your thrown pieces. Thank you
Wet dimensions were :
26 cm for the plate
19 cm diameter x 9 height for the bowl and
10cm diameter x 12 height for the beaker
Cheers!
Great tips! Thanks for showing your glazing process, and sharing your firing challenge? I'm curious to know if you had a kiln full of porcelain pieces at the too-high temperature or if you did a test firing first.
Luckily I only had one set of these in the kiln, and a few little flat dishes in the same glaze/porcelain combination. This was actually really helpful because the flat pieces including the plate didn't blister - indicating that could be a temperature issue. But, yes lucky it wasn't a kiln load!
Beautiful! I throw with cone 10 Babu porcelain. I have trouble getting a really white outcome of the clay itself, like the bottoms or many of my pieces are glazed inside but naked outside. Drives me crazy to expect a beautiful white and get gray. I work at a community studio so have no control over firings. I'm wondering if it's because the kiln is filled largely with stoneware and lots of different glazes so the atmosphere is affecting my clay body.
Is the kiln fired in reduction or oxidation? I can understand how frustrating that can be!
@ it’s gas, reduction firing.