Lili Krakowski on tue 20 feb 07
I am glad others still remember and appreciate Behrens. In our rush to the
new, our eagerness for novelty, we forget that in our field everything has
been done and done and done. What changes? Technology. We now have oxy
probes, we now have digital kilns--which replicate more scientifically what
the old timers did automatically (they fired by color, by judging the smoke;
they heated and cooled by color and clock as well) And new materials come
into the market.
Leigh: the stock idea you have is one I have been fooling around with for a
while. It is similar to Hopper's flux variation idea--of having a basic
recipe and changing just one flux.. but I am working on it because I would
like to pre-mix a batch of the basic and then add just one thing. Will
report.
Lili Krakowski
Be of good courage
Eleanor on wed 21 feb 07
Lili K. wrote:
> The idea that glazes can be measured out by volume came from
> an article [?]
> by Richard Behrens.
and
> He
> wrote a lot for Ceramics Monthly, and has a book in the
> Ceramics Monthly
> Handbook series. It is called "Ceramic Glazemaking"
Richard Behrens also wrote GLAZE PROJECTS -- A FORMULARY OF LEADLESS
GLAZES which includes a chapter on volumetric measurement. It is, or
was, in the CM series (I bought them years ago).
I laid these books aside in favor of more "modern" texts but I am now
motivated to look again. They seem to contain something for almost
everyone: different types of glaze; use of colorants; various firing
temperatures; oxidation and reduction glazes..............
There is so much good information in these books that you can ignore
the ingredients that are out of favor (barium, lead, etc) and still
learn a lot.
Thanks, Lili.
Eleanor Kohler
Centerport, NY
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