Kurt Wild on tue 7 sep 99
Tasha wrote, directing her comments to me:
"Some time back I requested that anyone
having the recipe (or I'll even take the formula) of a glaze called
Maija, please let me know. Or, if anyone has a glaze with similar
properties, I'll gladly experiment. This glaze was named after your
former instructor."
Well Tasha, Maija Grotell experimented and tested many glazes at many
temperatures during her many years as a potter/teacher and having a
glaze simply called "Maija" isn't enough to go on. Further in your post
you did say that "It's properties are:(varying, of course, dependent
upon firing procedures)a translucent, silver-blue white. porcelain and
white stoneware break pinkish through on lips etc." Again, wow, not
asking for much are you? I can tell you though that the pinkish color
you suggest we used to get from glazes containing zinc when there was
chrome in the kiln. In the period from 1958 - 1960 when I studied under
Maija we only fired oxidation. If pots came out of the kiln with a
pinkish cast no one would admitt they had used chrome - pink was not
desireable!
The story: As far as glazes go, there are many, many attributed to
Maija but often they were gotten from others and not directly from her.
I was working on lithium copper blue glazes and had done many. many
tests not quite getting what i wanted. Maija invited me into her
studio and opened a large flat drawer revealing many ceramic "cookies"
of various colors. Color groupings were tied to gether with a string.
She said I should look them over and when i found ONE I wanted I should
let her know. Hundreds of glazes and she gave me ONE and it did NOT have
a name! I had to name it myself. So you see a glaze called Maija can
mean nothing or anything. Good luck on your search.
Tasha Olive on wed 8 sep 99
Wow Kurt, I guess I'm a trifle naive to think that there should have been
only one glaze with that description that Maija would have had named for
her. Can we just chalk this one up to lack of sleep and worry? And by the
way, it was not a chrome pink flash on lips etc., it was just where the
glaze would break into total transparency yet show the clay as pinkish (very
pale pinky-tan) instead of white. Anyway, not expecting that nugget of info
to suddenly jog someone's memory and miraculously remember having the
formula in their archives, just wanted you to know. all of that said, I
should still deserve some credit for awakening that story out of YOUR
memorybanks. Thanks for sharing, enjoyed. Tasha
-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Wild
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Date: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 2:32 PM
Subject: Glaze called "Maija"& story.
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Tasha wrote, directing her comments to me:
>
>"Some time back I requested that anyone
>having the recipe (or I'll even take the formula) of a glaze called
>Maija, please let me know. Or, if anyone has a glaze with similar
>properties, I'll gladly experiment. This glaze was named after your
>former instructor."
>
>Well Tasha, Maija Grotell experimented and tested many glazes at many
>temperatures during her many years as a potter/teacher and having a
>glaze simply called "Maija" isn't enough to go on. Further in your post
>you did say that "It's properties are:(varying, of course, dependent
>upon firing procedures)a translucent, silver-blue white. porcelain and
>white stoneware break pinkish through on lips etc." Again, wow, not
>asking for much are you? I can tell you though that the pinkish color
>you suggest we used to get from glazes containing zinc when there was
>chrome in the kiln. In the period from 1958 - 1960 when I studied under
>Maija we only fired oxidation. If pots came out of the kiln with a
>pinkish cast no one would admitt they had used chrome - pink was not
>desireable!
>
>The story: As far as glazes go, there are many, many attributed to
>Maija but often they were gotten from others and not directly from her.
>I was working on lithium copper blue glazes and had done many. many
>tests not quite getting what i wanted. Maija invited me into her
>studio and opened a large flat drawer revealing many ceramic "cookies"
>of various colors. Color groupings were tied to gether with a string.
>She said I should look them over and when i found ONE I wanted I should
>let her know. Hundreds of glazes and she gave me ONE and it did NOT have
>a name! I had to name it myself. So you see a glaze called Maija can
>mean nothing or anything. Good luck on your search.
Emily & Kurt Kiewel on wed 8 sep 99
I missed the original message, but after reading this posting I realized
that I have the "maija" glaze that was orignally requested. I got it in a
handout at a workshop given by Rebecca Roberts. It is a cone 6 recipe but
to get the pearly effects it must be fired to cone 10, oxidation. This
glaze can run.
Maija Porcelain (cone 6) I fire to cone 10-oxidation
Zinc Oxide 7.5
Potash Spar 30.0
Flint 22.5
Whiting 22.5
Kaolin 11.2
Titanium 7.5
Emily-in Texas where the weather has cooled off almost10 degrees-only mid 90's!
Tasha Olive on fri 10 sep 99
Dear clayart friends;
YES!!! This IS the glaze I've been searching my notes for. Thanks so
very much for your response. Hope I can be of help to you sometime and
thanks for your post Kurt to see if this was the ONE!! Just sign me off
today as grateful and happy, Tasha
-----Original Message-----
From: Emily & Kurt Kiewel
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Date: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: Glaze called "Maija"& story.
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I missed the original message, but after reading this posting I realized
that I have the "maija" glaze that was orignally requested. I got it in a
handout at a workshop given by Rebecca Roberts. It is a cone 6 recipe but
to get the pearly effects it must be fired to cone 10, oxidation. This
glaze can run.
Maija Porcelain (cone 6) I fire to cone 10-oxidation
Zinc Oxide 7.5
Potash Spar 30.0
Flint 22.5
Whiting 22.5
Kaolin 11.2
Titanium 7.5
Emily-in Texas where the weather has cooled off almost10 degrees-only mid
90's!
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