OLD BLACK MAGIC
This is a shiny warm black glaze by Ron Roy in Canada, that is in the Kaki family of classic Japanese glazes. The black breaks to Kaki brown over ridges, rims and designs. It will take decorative elements of blue, red, green and gold speckle.
YELLOW SALT
Yellow Salt came to us from a potter in Colorado. It is a light yellow with a “buttery” semi-matte surface that just begs to be touched. Sometimes breaks brown over edges or gets some light brown speckling from iron. Sensitive to firing atmosphere and glaze thickness.
BAILEY (IRON) RED
Iron Red is, like Old Black Magic in Temmoku, in the classic Japanese Kaki family. It doesn’t have as much iron and gives a varying red, rust brown glaze. Very beautiful when it really works. Sensitive to application thickness.
WOLD STARRY NIGHT
Starry Night came from Donna and Wally Wold, close friends of Betsy’s who mentored us into pottery. I’ve never seen this anywhere else. The basic glaze is a dark gray bluish-black with speckles in it. Wally used to sprinkle Illmenite powder to increase the speckling. I’m having fun putting it up against other light glazes like Yellow Salt and Old Korean Celadon. It also does wonderful things with blue and red accents. I use it in memory of Donna and Wally.
JOE FRANK RED-BROWN
Betsy and my dear friend Joe Frank McKee from Sylva, NC, gave us this glaze recipe. For those of you who have come to the MN Pottery Festival, you know Joe Frank from his Raku demonstrations and wonderful pots, both stoneware, and Raku. This glaze does a lot of things depending on how thick it is applied, firing conditions and works well with a number of decorating over-glazes. When you order it, we’ll talk about what we’ll shoot for in color, flow, and accents.
FLAMEWARE (ONLY): ORANGE to GRAY-WHITE
Because of the nature of Flameware Cookware there is only a single glaze available and that glaze is only available on flameware. When applied thinly, it becomes a speckly orange-brown.
When applied more thickly, it becomes it, goes to a kind of a gray-white with brown over the ridges and edges.
