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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Not wrong, but there will be another crisis that will bring another wave.

Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Having some fun with Tomato reds on this unexpectedly snowy spring morning. This is Lauren’s tomato, which you can find the recipe for on our Glazy page. It’s a really robust tomato red. #tomato #red #glaze #pottery

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Correct! The fake shinos are all fe/sn. The AEs are up for debate, but that is what we are going to look at.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Playing around with some fake shinos. One of our students theorized that the broken cream/brown color may rely on bleed from an iron bearing clay. (It isn’t, more on that later). But we did test on this spotty stoneware from a client. We got this great effect where the iron nodules do bleed through

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Anybody who screen prints can make their own of whatever images they want. We talk all about the chemistry of ceramic GITD here. youtu.be/k1p1_4cQWSo?...

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Glow Up | How to make a glow in the dark glaze | Ceramic Materials Workshop

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This one is copper and titanium. The broken crystallization is pretty alluring to me.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Thanks! They are our Pro-Test test tiles and you can buy the master mold at our website. Ceramicmaterialsworkshop.Com

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I’m getting out some good glaze test this week. I’m loving the double crystallization on this copper TiDi one.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I always say that I don’t have hobbies, just glazes all the time. But I do like cooking and baking. So I made scones on this snowy Sunday, rather than tackle the snowplowing.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Working on the next Cracking the Kiln video for our YouTube channel! What do you all think? Is this my color??? Any guesses on what this video is going to be about?

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Now I know there is Juliana Hatfield singing ElO And my day is better for it.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Mornin’ The workshop faces east, so it makes the most of that low winter sun in the morning. Drawing us in, do get a few things done, after the kids are on the bus before things get crazy. Lots of people hate the cold and the winter, but we love it. It’s just takes making the most of the light.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

It’s clay body testing season, as we start to look at our first results from our clay bodies class. This one from Biliana, shows so many options with the combinations of Gage Red-Lincoln Fire clay and Tile 6.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I don’t think we have any in the pipeline

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

That’s wicked. Mine are the ceramic crazed

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We’re working on a video about it. The keycaps are glazed ceramics!

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Nice to see all the new people, Opening up Blue Sky this morning. Looking at all the fun new glaze and clay body tests submitted over the weekend. While listening to Radiohead from Coachella 2017, this morning. Hope everyone has a great week planned.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Mmmmmmmm. What I love about glazes is how much we can do with simplicity. This once came out today and there is so much activity going on. Yet this glaze is so insanely simple, just silica, alumina, sodium calcium and cobalt for the color.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

If you are going cone 10. You can find Zinc pinc on our Glazy page. Or look for a chrome tin red/pink

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It depends. Water has an easy time getting in, but a very hard time escaping. As the glaze is vitrified by default. So water vapor gets trapped. It’s a bit of a ship in a bottle situation. Once it’s in there it’s hard to get out.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

No, it is a quality question. That’s the controversial part. FDA standards say that ware must be non-abstinent, for food usage. Of course that is often ignored, which leads to these problems. Atmospheric is quite low. Well under 1%. But washing absorption can be quite high. Over 20% for bad clays

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

No, if the work has absorption, and has been washed it may act very differently. But it depends on the quality of the ware. (Low quality ceramics is a very controversial topic in our community.)

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ceramics cannot be 100% glazed. As the glass that forms would stick to the kiln furniture. That exposed clay can very easily absorb water. There are also cracks in some glazes known as crazing (or crackle) which are microscopic fissures down to the body, which water can seep though.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It seems that way, but ceramics (at least pottery) do not contain metals. They use oxides. Metallic bonds actually cannot function chemically in a ceramic matrix. The reason why ceramics can get hot in a microwave. Is because some ceramics are porous, and thus absorb water inside the ware.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This image is Clay Art Center's English Grolleg body and it has the same curve as the dark Redstone body.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This is L.O.I. or "burnout" for Laguna WC420- Redstone, which is a dark body. We are tracking weight loss of the sample with temperature, and you can see that the vast majority of the loss happens before cone 020. And the last image is Clay Art Center's English Grolleg body and it has the same curve

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Seriously you guys. There is nothing burning out past cone 08. And there is no such thing as a "clean bisque", by bisquing hotter. Anything that does decompose leaves the body primarily by cone 020 and realisitically by cone 012.

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Ceramic Materials Workshop @ceramicmaterials.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Firing a hotter bisque does not do what the community thinks it does.

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