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A complete guide to fantastic special effects glazes for studio potters.

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

Right up there with the best of them ... Linda should be congratulated
*London Potters*

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.
*The Journal of Australian Ceramics*

... 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.
*The Studio Manager*