Special Effect Glazes: New Ceramics
Ebook
Overview
A complete guide to fantastic special effects glazes for studio potters.
From drippy and crackle to ash and lichen glazes, experienced ceramicist Linda Bloomfield guides you through the world of special effect glazes. Beautifully illustrated with pieces from both emerging and established potters that showcase stunning copper oxide-blues, metallic bronzes and manganese-pink crystal glazes, Special Effect Glazes is packed full of recipes to try out: from functional oilspot glazes using iron oxide, to explosive lava glazes.
In this informative handbook discover how you can create these fantastic effects and learn the basic chemistry behind glazes in order to adjust and experiment with your unique pieces. Discussed are materials and stains, how to find them and how they affect the colour and texture of the glaze, alongside practical fixes to familiar glaze-making problems.
Special Effect Glazes is essential if you are interested in creating eye-catching glazes and wanting to develop your knowledge of glaze-making, or experiment with your own formulas to achieve the perfect finish.
A complete guide to fantastic special effects glazes for studio potters.
Specialist glaze techniques are useful for all areas of ceramics
Well explained and easy to follow
Fully illustrated
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section 1: Glaze Principles and Application
1. Understanding Glazes
2. Glaze Materials and Minerals
3. Colouring Glazes
4. Impurities and Variation In Materials
5. Stability and Durability
6. Creating and Testing Glazes
7. Glaze Mixing and Application
8. Firing
9. Glaze 'Defects'
Section 2: Special Effect Glazes
10. Special Effects: The Chemistry
11. Crackle Glazes
12. Ash Glazes
13. Celadon and Copper Red Glazes
14. Drippy Glazes and Chun Glazes
15. Crystalline Glazes
16. Shrink and Crawl: Lichen Glazes
17. Volcanic, Lava or Crater Glazes
18. Spotted Glazes
19. Metallic Glazes
20. Layering Glazes
Conclusion
References
Bibliography
Appendices
1. Glaze Materials UK:US Materials Substitutions
2. Orton Cone Temperatures
3. Ceramic Materials, Chemical Formula and Molecular Weight
4. Limits for Stable Glazes
5. Periodic Table of Elements
6. Materials Analysis for UK Frits, Clays and Feldspars
7. Materials Analysis for US Frits, Clays and Feldspars
Suppliers
Laboratories for Leach Testing of Glazes
Health and Safety
Index
Right up there with the best of them ... Linda should be congratulated
The knowledge of glazes is an evolutionary process ... Special Effect Glazes makes a valuable and desirable contribution to this lineage of knowledge ... I encourage you to embrace this delightful publication.
... there is a ton of information and a variety of recipes in this book [...] there are many useful clues and ideas of how to test and push the glazes in a direction that works for your studio.
- Title: Special Effect Glazes
- Author: Linda Bloomfield
- Series: New Ceramics
- Publisher: Herbert Press
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 160
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781912217885, 9781912217878, 1912217872, 1912217880
- Resource ID: LLS:9781912217885
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T13:02:19Z
Linda Bloomfield trained as a materials scientist before fulfilling her dream of becoming a potter. She has made thrown porcelain tableware in her West London studio since 2003 and sold her various ranges through Liberty and Harrods, as well as to Jamie Oliver's Barbecoa Restaurant and Michelin-starred restaurant The Clove Club. She has written several best-selling books on ceramic glazes and is a frequent contributor to Ceramic Review.