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Mid-Range Glazes for Beginners
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ISBN13: 9798192484531
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.49 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 13 2026
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.49 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
You bought the clay, mixed a glaze recipe off the internet, fired it at cone 6 exactly as written - and got crawling, crazing, or a color that looked nothing like the photo.Mid-range is where most working potters actually glaze, but most beginner books either wave at the chemistry or bury it in a materials-science textbook.
Mid-Range Glazes for Beginners is a complete, ground-up foundation in cone 5-6 glaze chemistry, built for potters who want to understand what a recipe is actually doing instead of just trusting it.
Inside, you'll learn how to:
Inside, you'll learn how to:
- Read a glaze recipe like a potter, not a chemist - what silica, alumina, and flux are each doing, and why their balance decides whether a glaze runs, crazes, or holds
- Use colorants and oxides with real confidence, from iron and cobalt through the full palette, with an accurate feel for how small a small amount actually is
- Build a genuine test-tile practice, including line blends, so every glazing decision rests on a fired result instead of a guess
- Apply glaze the way working studios do - dipping, pouring, spraying, and layering - and know when each one is the right call
- Diagnose and fix the defects that stop beginners cold: crazing, pinholing, crawling, and blistering
- Glaze functional ware safely, with a clear understanding of what food-safe actually requires
- Work within real constraints, with guidance on community studios and shared kiln access for potters without a kiln of their own
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