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iron glazes, temmoku

updated tue 13 sep 11

 

Rimas VisGirda on mon 12 sep 11


Back in my teaching daze, I had about a dozen stock class glazes for the st=
udents; we fired c/10 reduction. One of them was a Temmoku, from my school =
days at Sacramento, that came out glossy black and broke to a coppery brown=
. Sometime late in my career I wanted to clean a Temmoku cup, I don't remem=
ber why maybe it had old dried coffee in it, so I stuck it into a c/05-06 b=
isque firing. Came out of the bisque a pretty beautiful satin burgundy rust=
that broke to moss green... There was another glaze that did a similar spe=
ctacular change when refired to electric c/05, but I don't remember what th=
at was...
-Rimas