Ash glaze recipe

Here are a few Kaki glazes, mostly from John Britt’s book High Fire Glazes . You can find these recipes (with updated cone 9 & 10 photos) and more on my glaze website Glazy: https://glazy.org/search?base_type=460&type=570&cone=high Mo

The Nuka glaze originated in Japan centuries ago. Potters traditionally made the glaze by using ashes from burnt rice hulls. These ashes were high in Silica, which is a glass former, so some Nuka g…

Local Color: A Potter Uses Local Vegetation in Ash Glaze Recipes

Glaze Mixing Over the summer I've been doing lots of glaze testing, and one of these has been to find my own Wood Ash Glaze recipe. It's not an easy process. I gathered together several recipes found in pottery books. All of them had a different take on the process - and sometimes conflicting ideas! I tried out four of the recipes with varying success, but now I think have my own version. Wood Ash The first thing I had to do was get a source of wood ash. You need at least a kilo of good…

deMib Pottery on Instagram: "How to Make Ash Glaze fir Pottery. See the full video with more details on my HouTube channel. Link in Bio (LinkTreeJ This is a short version of my video about how you can make your own ash glaze. And it’s actually a very special ash glaze - because I will be using the left over ashes I get from pitfire. I will show you everything from cleaning and filtering af ash, how to mix the glaze, adjust it, glazing your pots, fire them and how it all ends up. The…

Wood ash has been used for thousands of years to make a pottery glaze. How does wood ash make a pottery glaze and what is the process incolved? How can recycled ingredients make homeware more ethical and sustainable. Pots glazed naturally with wood ash do not have any toxic colourants added. The colour in the glaze is made from natural trace minerals and metals that differ depending on where the plant grew and in what soil.

Wood Ash Glaze Tests One of my most popular posts on this blog has been the one about how to make a wood ash glaze. It seems there's quite a few potters out there looking for information on this. So I thought I'd do an update in case anyone finds it useful or interesting! I've completely run out of my first ash glaze - the one I made back in 2013. It was such a lovely glaze I used it on lots of pots. Since then I've moved house and now have a garden with mature trees which are always…

Experiments in making pottery glaze with different plant ashes. Each glaze is completely different, even though the same recipe is used each time.

Glaze Mixing Over the summer I've been doing lots of glaze testing, and one of these has been to find my own Wood Ash Glaze recipe. It'...