Searching for New Pottery Glazes — Reduction Fired to 1290ºc

Finally, here's the video all about the recent glaze testing I've been doing. All of the tests in this video were made for reduction firing in a gas kiln, so please take that into account for the glazes that I do share the recipes for. I'm certainly no chemist and I wish my glaze knowledge was better but this film shows the process I took to find new glazes and how I experimented to find some exciting new surfaces. I can't wait to see how some of these will look on actual pots!

If you'd like to see the final selection of glazes straight away you can find them here, 25:37

Some of the resources I used,

Websites:
https://glazy.org
https://glazy.org/u/7337 — Alfred's Grinding Room
https://digitalfire.com

Books:
The Complete Guide to High-fire Glazes: Glazing & Firing at Cone 10 by John Britt
The potter's book of glaze recipes by Emmanuel Cooper
The Glaze Book by Stephen Murfitt
Ash Glazes by Phil Rogers
Oriental Glazes by Michael Bailey

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:39 - Making test tiles
1:24 - Unpacking tiles from a bisque firing
1:58 - How I mix up glaze test samples
4:45 - Labelling the tiles
7:06 - Unpacking the tiles from the gas kiln, (fired to cone 10)
8:50 - Categorising the tiles for selection
10:30 - Discussing current glazes
11:00 - Old glazes on porcelain
11:50 - Crackle glaze alternatives
14:52 - Yellow glazes
18:01 - Misc glazes
19:00 - Black and metallic glazes
21:25 - The selected glazes
25:37 - Photographs of the chosen glazes

Thanks as always for watching!
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