Handbuilt: a Modern Potter's Guide to Handbuilding with Clay by Lilly Maetzig

Author:Lilly Maetzig [Maetzig, Lilly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-25T00:00:00+00:00

Dip the tile into the glaze for three seconds, then remove the tile, giving it a shake to flick any drips off.

Once the glaze has dried to the touch, dip one corner in for another three seconds. Wipe the bottom with a sponge to ensure the base is clear of glaze.

Write on the bottom of the test tile with a ceramic pencil or an oxide. Remember that a regular pencil will fire out in the kiln.

Put it into the kiln on a little cookie, in case the glaze runs onto your kiln shelf.

How to label test tiles

It doesn’t matter too much which system you use, as long as you can identify which glaze you have used on the tile. If you do a lot of glaze testing, you may end up with years’ worth of test tiles and it is important to be able to work out what is on the tile if you want to replicate the glaze one day.

What is a cookie?

This is a word I use in my studio, but I think it differs in every studio you go to. It is a piece of broken kiln shelf or a pre-made coaster of stoneware clay that you can place your test tiles onto. If the glaze runs, it will run onto the cookie, rather than onto your kiln shelf. When molten glaze hardens, it turns into glass and it is very difficult to remove from kiln shelves without leaving gouge marks on the surface.

HOW TO POUR AND DIP ON A CUP

The easiest method of glazing are pouring and dipping. Most glazes that are made in the studio are for pouring and dipping.

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