Richard Aerni on fri 31 mar 06
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:10:16 -0800, Deborah Pratt wrote:
>Hi folks,
> I'm trying to find an article from an issue of Pottery Making Illustrated
from 1995-1999 (probably) that had several recipes for ash glazes in it; the
ash glaze names on the lone page (p. 21) I have include Green Ash Glaze, Old
Gold Ash Glaze, White Ash Glaze, Van Tan Ash Glaze, and Van Blue Ash Glaze;
three others are listed there also but are not ash glazes.
Sorry, I don't know the issue number of the magazine, but the potter whose
recipes you mention in your post is Lenore VanderKooi from Nashville,
Tennessee. I recall seeing the article recently during one of my lunchtime
perusals of the magazine stacks in my studio. If I come across it tomorrow
I'll try to remember to bring it home and make a copy for you.
Best,
Richard Aerni
Rochester, NY
Deborah Pratt on fri 31 mar 06
Hi folks,
I'm trying to find an article from an issue of Pottery Making Illustrated from 1995-1999 (probably) that had several recipes for ash glazes in it; the ash glaze names on the lone page (p. 21) I have include Green Ash Glaze, Old Gold Ash Glaze, White Ash Glaze, Van Tan Ash Glaze, and Van Blue Ash Glaze; three others are listed there also but are not ash glazes.
I'd like to get a back issue of this if one exists, but first I need to know which one it is! If anyone knows, I'd be grateful if you'd share the info with me--
Thanks!
Deb Pratt
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Russel Fouts on sun 2 apr 06
To the person looking for the PMI article,
>> Sorry, I don't know the issue number of the magazine, but the
potter whose recipes you mention in your post is Lenore VanderKooi
from Nashville, Tennessee. I recall seeing the article recently
during one of my lunchtime perusals of the magazine stacks in my
studio. If I come across it tomorrow I'll try to remember to bring
it home and make a copy for you. <<
I met Lenore when she was in Belgium visiting Patty Wauters a few
years ago. She used to be on clayart. At the time she was making pots
incorporating reed and bamboo elements but I think she eventually
went completely to doing baskets. Sort of a reverse Sandy Miller. ;-)
I did a search of the article index on PMI's site for "ash" and only
came up with these:
Article: In the Mix
Comment: Wood-Ash Glazing at Cone 6
Author(s): Harry Spring
Issue: Mar/Apr 2006, Pages 12 - 13
Article: Wood Ash: Preparing for Glazes
Comment: Clean wood ash enhances your glaze palette
Author(s): Kathy Chamberlin
Issue: Jan/Feb 2005, Pages 32 - 34
Article: In the Mix
Comment: Wood Ash Glazes
Author(s): Tim Frederich
Issue: Mar/Apr 2005, Page 44
Article: Preparing and Loading Kilns
Author(s): Vince Pitelka
Issue: Mar/Apr 2003, Pages 38 - 39
Article: PMI Online: Washington Potters and Ceramists
Author(s): Helen Bates
Issue: May/June 2003, Pages 6 - 7
Article: WPA
Comment: The story of one of America's most successful potter's organizations.
Author(s): Elinor Maroney
Issue: May/June 2003, Pages 12 - 12
Article: Kitchen Safe
Comment: Testing criteria for microwave and dishwasher safe
Author(s): Greg Geiger
Issue: Fall 1998, Page 6
Article: Kiln Wash
Comment: Basic information about kiln wash including recipes
Issue: Summer 1998, Page 6
Not much help, do you have any other criteria?
You can get some really nice ash glazes just by doing line blends of
earthenware clay and ash. I did this in school and got some really
beautiful glazes. Very simple to mix as well.
Go to a woodstove store or an italian restaurant that has a wood
fired pizza oven or any restaurant that cooks with wood or visit all
your friends with fireplaces before the weather gets too warm.
They'll be glad to give you some. Get a good supply, mix it all
together really well and then treat it like any other materia.
Wash the ash if you want, it makes it more stable, less caustic but
less of a flux. Use rubber gloves and a sieve when you do this.
Otherwise, just dry sieve it through a window screen or a really
coarse sieve to get all the charcoal out and then through a finer
sieve, but not too fine and where a good mask. You don't want to
breath that stuff.
Then, to do a line blend, just set out 11 cups and then put:
10 parts clay/ 0 parts ash in the 1st
9 parts clay/1 part ash in the 2nd
8 parts clay/2 parts ash in the 3rd
7 parts clay/3 parts ash in the 4th
6 parts clay/4 parts ash in the 5th
5 parts clay/5 parts ash in the 6th
4 parts clay/6 parts ash in the 7th
3 parts clay/7 parts ash in the 8th
2 parts clay/ 8 parts ash in the 9th
1 part clay/ 9 parts ash in the 10th
0 parts clay/ 10 parts ash in the 11th
Actually you don't probably don't need to test the last 3 or 4,
they're going to be pretty runny and probably not usable. Make sure
you fire your tests on clay "cookies" in case they run too much.
Have a ball!
Russel
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