In-house glaze: Honeycomb
Another glaze recipe unique to our studio
A lot of the glazes we have in the studio are commercial glazes, bought ready mixed, just add water. A bit like boxed cake mix. But some of the glazes are special. That’s because they’re our own concoctions, that we’ve tweaked until they’re just right.
I didn’t document the development process for these glazes, but we’re still working on expanding our range so I’ll write more about that in another post. For now, I just want to share the recipes of two of our in-house glazes that we’re very happy with!
Honeycomb
A golden brown glaze, moving through blue and then yellow-white when thicker.
This glaze has a lot of variation. I mostly use it for my little creatures, but it's become a favourite in the studio for functional ware.
Personally, I try to catch it at the point where the rutile blue starts to show up, but no let it get so thick that the titanium takes over and turns everything yellow - it can be tricky to get it right!
I plan to test this glaze without the iron, to see if I can just get those beautiful blues, but that will be a test for the future.
Above, from left to right, Honeycomb on white, brown (iron) and black (manganese) stoneware bodies.
The tiles are all double dipped. The white and brown test tiles show a 3-second dip on the lower half, and a 6-second dip on the upper. The black test tile shows a 5-second dip on the lower half, and a 10-second dip on the upper.
The glaze is mixed to a density of 1.4 for dipping.
Tiles fired to 1240°C in an electric kiln.