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down and under or up and over on stoneware? was re: decoration

updated wed 17 sep 03

 

Janet Kaiser on wed 17 sep 03


Gosh, John, don't you have a simpler question? Seems to me that a
lot depends on what effects you wish to achieve and which family
of glazes you will be using. I don't believe there is such a
thing as a "system" here either. Sometimes required effects are
achieved using both on the same pot, not to mention glaze on
glaze...

And if Mrs. Flower Pot Woman has definite ideas about this...
Well, aren't you at an ever so slight disadvantage? Have you much
choice?

Sincerely

Janet Kaiser - with another tray full of jam pots cooling... :-)

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>Now that I am reinventing myself as a stoneware potter,
>I have to decide whether to
>decorate under glaze or over. My Japanese wife will be doing
this and
>insists that under glaze is the only way to go.
>Any help on the pros and cons of either system.

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