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Here is the kind of pots AI thinks we are making:
AI generated picture and text to a prompt asking about the type of ware commonly made by potters and hobbyists who do layering of commercial bottled glazes (and some terms describing the trends).
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Commercial brushing glazes are laced with CMC gum to make them dry slowly and go on thin and uneven. Why would anyone want that? Layering. Brushing on layers takes time but it justifies brushing up the prices also!
What if you are not a "layer slayer" and want the opposite of all of that: Go on thick enough at one go, dry in seconds and apply super even. DIY potters have that ability with thixotropic dipping glazes. You cannot buy these because the gum kills thixotropy. Thixotropic glazes are fluid in the bucket but gel after a few seconds of standing. This enables really good dipping properties, the gelling enables the glaze to stay in place upon extraction from the bucket. This picture demonstrates how the glaze hangs on to even a non-absorbent and wet surface.
Bottom: Extreme thixotropy. The spatula is held vertical by gelling only. Yet when this slurry is put in motion, it is fluid!
Top left and right: These spatulas were slowly extracted and the engobe and glaze just hang on in a perfectly even layer. On a bisque surface, the glaze dries quickly, within seconds. And the engobe hangs on to leather hard ware for perfect coverage.
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