Marcia Kindlmann on tue 16 mar 99
Subject: Limenite/Ilmenite & the color of Moonlight
Hi Anne,
You asked about the Conrad Moonlight c 9 - 10 glaze,
> It sounds nice---if anyone knows what it looks like, please let me
> know---it mey be a "keeper".
It's pale lavender (in my experience) tending toward bluish if in medium
reduction, but moving toward pinkish-lavender if in less reduction,
almost oxidation. I've been using it at cone 9 - 10 on white
stoneware (not pure white but off-white) and on porcelain, for
these colors. I think it might be muddy on a brown stoneware -- but haven't
tried it on stoneware. Its surface is glossy, smooth.
I've found that if I'm dipping thin-walled pots in this glaze, the glaze
slurry needs to be thick enough so that one coat will do -- trying to
get two coats on means they both adhere poorly. But on the inside of a
bowl, one can get two coats on by swirling the glaze around slowly twice.
(outside of bowl & rim in this case being glazed with a dark color for
contrast, which is why the inside is getting glazed separately.)
BTW I guess you found that "Limenite" = "Ilmenite"? (I wasn't
following that thread).
Marcia in Guilford CT where 6" of soggy-wet snow is bending birches
just like in a Robert Frost poem
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> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 16:42:42 EST From: Anne Hunt
> Subject: Limenite
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Hi all---
> Thanks for all the responses on my limenite question. The combined
> memory of this group is phenomenal! As it turns out, the recipe calling
> for limenite is ^9-10, which at this point in time is n/a for me,
> finances limiting me to reeeally cheap firing. At any rate, the glaze
> is called "Moonlight", and was cited by Tom Wirt:
>
> Conrad Moonlight (^9-10)
>
> 63 Cornwall Stone 14 Gerstley
> 8 Silica
> 8 Whiting
> 5 EPK
> 2 Zinc Oxide
>
> Add: 3 Rutile (powdered)
> 2 Limenite (powdered)
>
> It sounds nice---if anyone knows what it looks like, please let me
> know---it mey be a "keeper".
> 6am in windy wet Sequim Washington, but the crocuses are coming up, anne
> and the cats.
Veena Raghavan on wed 17 mar 99
Dear Clayarters,
The Moonlight glaze sounds really nice. Is there any equivalent for
electric Cone 6? Always hopeful, I just thought I would ask!
Thanks in advance.
Veena
Veena Raghavan
75124.2520@compuserve.com
Tom Wirt on thu 18 mar 99
From: Veena Raghavan <75124.2520@compuserve.com>
Subject: Limenite/Ilmenite & the col
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Dear Clayarters,
> The Moonlight glaze sounds really nice. Is there any equivalent for
>electric Cone 6? Always hopeful, I just thought I would ask!
> Thanks in advance.
Veena
my impression is that the oft discussed Floating Blue is similar.
Tom
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