Flashing Slip For Wood Fired Ceramics

In this section you ll find flashing slip and glaze recipes to use in an atmospheric salt soda and or wood firing.

Flashing slip for wood fired ceramics.

Published in emerging artist recipes in the may 2017 issue of ceramics monthly. I have heard about a flashing slip and wonder if someone might share some recipes. One way to achieve flashing in a modern kiln is a flashing slip. Now with so many fuel options available to the potter wood fired kilns are more of a choice than a necessity.

Flashing slips contain high levels of alumina. Flashing is not the natural byproduct of a more contemporary kiln. While wood kiln firing isn t easy the results are incomparable. The salt vaporizes and sodium vapor combines with silica in clay surface forming extremely hard sodium silicate glaze.

Medium orange atmosphere. Laura conley on thu 5 feb 98 hello i have the opportunity to participate in a wood firing and am wondering how to decorate the surfaces of my pots. Flashing slip for woodfire updated mon 9 feb 98. Many potters want to recreate the look without spending 3 days stoking a wood burning kiln.

It yields rusty oranges deep browns and yellow flashing with a matte surface texture. Soda firing has been touted. The firing should be about cone 10 11. Salt firing is a vapor glazing process where salt sodium chloride is introduced into the kiln firebox at high temperature.

This slip can be applied thinner and dipped or it can be applied thick with a brush or hand. Developed by randy johnston this classic yellow to orange to red flashing slip works well in both wood and soda atmospheres. Flashing slip slip that is painted or dipped onto wares in order to promote flashing effects in the firing. Flashing slip posted on february 21 2019 by oneidashark i m talking about ceramics specifically firing pottery in a wood fired kiln not ladies undergarments lol.

Since humans first began to understand how fire hardened clay we have been making ceramics both in pits and in wood kilns. It can crackle around seams so dry slowly. This slip can be applied in varying thicknesses to leather hard greenware.