Carenza Hayhoe on sat 10 mar 01
The most attractive cone 6 pink glaze I have ever had was (of course) by
accident and it was sometime before I was able to work out how it happened.
The recipe was supposed to be tin white but came out a soft gloss snake skin
mottled pale pink. One friend had a similar experience and then found an
old chrome kitchen teaspoon in the bottom of the glaze bucket. It couldn't
be that as I had no chrome oxide in my workshop. In the end I found the
clue in Frank and Janet Hamer's Potters' Dictionary. If your whiting comes
from chalk fossil beds with mussel shells in them the whiting will have
trance elements of chrome in it, enough to turn the glaze tin pink!
For most of the past year I have been a lurker, making no pots while we
restored an ancient cottage on the Island of Portland into a Studio
Ceramics and Fine Art Gallery and home for ourselves. I've really
appreciated still being part of the Clayart family. Thank you Janet for
your warnings and advice on the Discussion List - I doubt if I shall have
time to make many pots in future though I intend to do enough to continue
with a bit of glaze exploration/experiment as well as some mochaware.
Please visit my new web site finished only two weeks ago.
http://www.wellbelovedgallery.co.uk
Carenza
carenza@hayhoe.net
Richard Jeffery on sun 11 mar 01
I'm delighted to see another good looking gallery in Dorset... Good luck -
west Dorset deserves something decent!
Regards
Richard
Bournemouth UK
www.TheEleventhHour.co.uk
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Sent: 10 March 2001 14:41
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: ^6 pink and news of new gallery.
The most attractive cone 6 pink glaze I have ever had was (of course) by
accident and it was sometime before I was able to work out how it happened.
The recipe was supposed to be tin white but came out a soft gloss snake skin
mottled pale pink. One friend had a similar experience and then found an
old chrome kitchen teaspoon in the bottom of the glaze bucket. It couldn't
be that as I had no chrome oxide in my workshop. In the end I found the
clue in Frank and Janet Hamer's Potters' Dictionary. If your whiting comes
from chalk fossil beds with mussel shells in them the whiting will have
trance elements of chrome in it, enough to turn the glaze tin pink!
For most of the past year I have been a lurker, making no pots while we
restored an ancient cottage on the Island of Portland into a Studio
Ceramics and Fine Art Gallery and home for ourselves. I've really
appreciated still being part of the Clayart family. Thank you Janet for
your warnings and advice on the Discussion List - I doubt if I shall have
time to make many pots in future though I intend to do enough to continue
with a bit of glaze exploration/experiment as well as some mochaware.
Please visit my new web site finished only two weeks ago.
http://www.wellbelovedgallery.co.uk
Carenza
carenza@hayhoe.net
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