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advise is needed (mixture of white stoneware and terra cotta)

updated sun 19 jan 03

 

Ababi on sat 18 jan 03


Hi!
My favorite mixture of white stoneware and terra cotta + 0.2 granular manganese that
acts beautiful as paperclay, I used to make mugs - this time as a solid claybody (
without paper) because of it's beauty as well as it's low absorption at ^6. After the
second firing appeared kind of bloating in some of the wares. Please tell me, can you
suggest why?
http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910/777724/
The last two slides.
Would you consider such a ware as a second class ware because of this reason?
Thank you for any help.
Ababi Sharon
Glaze addict
Kibbutz Shoval Israel
ababisha@shoval.org.il
http://members4.clubphoto.com/ababi306910/