John Sankey on wed 31 oct 07
There are several raw lists of glaze recipes on the web. Many of
the recipes suffer from an absence of testing, unusual
ingredients, and other problems. Two project are underway to
address these problems.
Alisha Clarke is starting a project that is based on verbal
descriptions and photos. It's especially designed to allow
multiple comments on each glaze from non-technical users. To
see it and contribute to it, register on her site:
http://www.potterybasics.cam
I'm also building a database, but with a much more technical aim.
It will contain solely glazes whose recipes can be published and
oxide compositions defined, and will be in a format designed for
numerical analysis. It will be in text format, searchable by any
word processor or browser. I'm starting with Alisa Clausen's
glaze tests on Clayart, and will then be ready to accept other
submissions via email. You'll find it at
http://sankey.ws/pottery.html
Most Clayart (and Yahoo group) users will find Alisha's site more
useful, but technical users (including Alisha herself, of course)
will find mine useful for classifying glazes, eliminating
duplicate recipes, and such.
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Heidy Freyre on thu 1 nov 07
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:35:17 -0400, John Sankey wrote:
>There are several raw lists of glaze recipes on the web. Many of
>the recipes suffer from an absence of testing, unusual
>ingredients, and other problems. Two project are underway to
>address these problems.
>
>Alisha Clarke is starting a project that is based on verbal
>descriptions and photos. It's especially designed to allow
>multiple comments on each glaze from non-technical users. To
>see it and contribute to it, register on her site:
>http://www.potterybasics.cam
>
>I'm also building a database, but with a much more technical aim.
>It will contain solely glazes whose recipes can be published and
>oxide compositions defined, and will be in a format designed for
>numerical analysis. It will be in text format, searchable by any
>word processor or browser. I'm starting with Alisa Clausen's
>glaze tests on Clayart, and will then be ready to accept other
>submissions via email. You'll find it at
>http://sankey.ws/pottery.html
>
>Most Clayart (and Yahoo group) users will find Alisha's site more
>useful, but technical users (including Alisha herself, of course)
>will find mine useful for classifying glazes, eliminating
>duplicate recipes, and such.
>
My favourite glaze data base (I am just a beginner) is still Alisa Clausen.
She is doing a wonderful job on flickr with photos, recipes and the unity
formula included - which is quite important for all of us that do not live
in the states and whose glaze materials are therefore sometimes quite
different, so most recipes have to be manipulated a bit according to the
unity formula. For example while I can get all the Gerstley Borate, Albany
Slip and unusual materials I want to, the frits available are quite
different. And there is only one kind of kaolin available in the whole
country.
heidy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amapolablau/sets
http://picasaweb.google.com/amapolablau
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