Black glaze recipe

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base glaze: 40 Potash Feldspar, 20 Whiting, 25 China Clay and 15 Flint. for black: 4% Nickel Oxide, 4% Red Iron Oxide, 2% Cobalt Carbonate

Tuning the degree of gloss on a matte black stoneware glaze is both about appearance and function.

We got a better black using 4% stain that we did with 15% metal oxides. And it did not leach whereas the metal-oxide one leached badly.

Charcoal Satin cone 6 glaze recipe

Below is the recipe of the black slip. I have used this before it has a slight blue tone to it. I will experiment with different glazes on top to see how it reacts. BLACK SLIP BALL CLAY 100% oxide …

All of the following black glaze recipes and more can now be found on my new open-source ceramics recipes website, Glazy: https://glazy.org/search?base_type=460&type=880&cone=high Here are a few black glazes, mostly from John Britt’s book High Fire Glazes . Va

Tony Hansen Charcoal Matte Black 138/7 Several variations, see text on tile 49.2 Soda Feldspar 5 Silica 17.9 Whiting 19.9 Kaolin 8 Zinc Ox. ADD 6.7 RIO 1.3 Cobalt Ox. Tests show from left to right, a 5% increment increase of Silica from 5% to 25%. The surface gets glossier as the Silica increases.

Tuning the degree of gloss in a colored matte glaze

All of the following black glaze recipes and more can now be found on my new open-source ceramics recipes website, Glazy: https://glazy.org/search?base_type=460&type=880&cone=high Here are a few black glazes, mostly from John Britt’s book High Fire Glazes . Va