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albany and barnard substitutes

updated thu 5 jun 08

 

Lili Krakowski on wed 4 jun 08


I have found--and I do a lot of slip glazes--that RedArt slightly "enhanced"
works fine as an Albany or Barnard substitute.

I have NOT tried to start from scratch--i.e. satisfying the formula in its
entirety with individual ingredients.

I say this because it is something I probably should look into, it being my
impression that slip glazes cannot really be replicated that way.
Slip--high clay glazes-- have characteristics such as resistance to dunting
crawling crazing most glazes don't.

Has anyone looked around in that area?

And, by the way. I wet mix my substitutes, dry them, then weigh them out
into the glaze proper.
Lili Krakowski

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