Recipes for Traditional Ceramics

Bodies, engobes and glazes.

BORY1 - Bory 1 Crystalline Glaze
CELECG - Celestite Crystalline Glaze
FAAO - Fa's All-Opaque Crystalline Glaze
FAC5 - Crystal Number Five Glaze
FO - Octal Crystalline Glaze
G1214M - Original Cone 6 Base Glossy Glaze
G1214W - Cone 6 Transparent Base
G1214Z1 - Cone 6 Silky Matte
G1215U - Low Expansion Glossy Clear Cone 6
G1216L - Transparent for Cone 6 Porcelains
G1216M - Cone 6 Ultraclear Glaze for Porcelains
G1916Q - Low Fire Highly-Expansion-Adjustable Transparent
G1947U - Cone 10 Glossy transparent glaze
G2000 - LA Matte Cone 6 Matte White
G2240 - Cone 10R Classic Spodumene Matte
G2571A - Cone 10 Silky Dolomite Matte glaze
G2826R - Floating Blue Cone 5-6 Original Glaze Recipe
G2826X - Randy's Red Cone 5
g2851H - Ravenscrag Cone 6 High Calcium Matte Blue
G2853B - Cone 04 Clear Ravenscrag School Glaze
G2896 - Ravenscrag Plum Red Cone 6
G2902B - Cone 6 Crystal Glaze
G2902D - Cone 6 Crystalline Development Project
G2916F - Cone 6 Stoneware/Whiteware transparent glaze
G2926B - Cone 6 Whiteware/Porcelain transparent glaze
G2926J - Low Expansion G2926B
G2926S - Low Expansion version of G2926B
G2928C - Ravenscrag Silky Matte for Cone 6
G2931H - Ulexite High Expansion Zero3 Clear Glaze
G2931K - Low Fire Fritted Zero3 Transparent Glaze
G2931L - Low Expansion Low-Fire Clear
G2934 - Matte Glaze Base for Cone 6
G2934Y - Cone 6 Magnesia Matte Low LOI Version
G3806C - Cone 6 Clear Fluid-Melt transparent glaze
G3838A - Low Expansion Transparent for P300 Porcelain
G3879 - Cone 04 Transparent Low-Expansion transparent glaze
GA10-A - Alberta Slip Base Cone 10R
GA10-B - Alberta Slip Tenmoku Cone 10R
GA10-D - Alberta Slip Black Cone 10R
GA10x-A - Alberta Slip Base for cone 10 oxidation
GA6-A - Alberta Slip Cone 6 transparent honey glaze
GA6-B - Alberta Slip Cone 6 transparent honey glaze
GA6-C - Alberta Slip Floating Blue Cone 6
GA6-D - Alberta Slip Glossy Brown Cone 6
GA6-F - Alberta Slip Cone 6 Oatmeal
GA6-G - Alberta Slip Lithium Brown Cone 6
GA6-G1 - Alberta Slip Lithium Brown Cone 6 Low Expansion
GA6-H - Alberta Slip Cone 6 Black
GBCG - Generic Base Crystalline Glaze
GC106 - GC106 Base Crystalline Glaze
GR10-A - Pure Ravenscrag Slip
GR10-B - Ravenscrag Cone 10R Gloss Base
GR10-C - Ravenscrag Cone 10R Silky Talc Matte
GR10-E - Alberta Slip:Ravenscrag Cone 10R Celadon
GR10-G - Ravenscrag Cone 10 Oxidation Variegated White
GR10-J - Ravenscrag Cone 10R Dolomite Matte
GR10-J1 - Ravenscrag Cone 10R Bamboo Matte
GR10-K1 - Ravenscrag Cone 10R Tenmoku
GR10-L - Ravenscrag Iron Crystal
GR6-A - Ravenscrag Cone 6 Clear Glossy Base
GR6-B - Ravenscrag Cone 6 Variegated Light Glossy Blue
GR6-C - Ravenscrag Cone 6 White Glossy
GR6-D - Ravenscrag Cone 6 Glossy Black
GR6-E - Ravenscrag Cone 6 Raspberry Glossy
GR6-H - Ravenscrag Cone 6 Oatmeal Matte
GR6-L - Ravenscrag Cone 6 Transparent Burgundy
GR6-M - Ravenscrag Cone 6 Floating Blue
GR6-N - Ravenscrag Alberta Brilliant Cone 6 Celadon
GRNTCG - GRANITE Crystalline Glaze
L2000 - 25 Porcelain
L3341B - Alberta Slip Iron Crystal Cone 10R
L3685U - Cone 03 White Engobe Recipe
L3724F - Cone 03 Terra Cotta Stoneware
L3924C - Zero3 Porcelain Experimental
L3954B - Cone 6 Engobe (for M340)
L3954N - Cone 10R Base White Engobe Recipe for stonewares
TNF2CG - Tin Foil II Crystalline Glaze
VESUCG - Vesuvius Crystalline Glaze

Introduction

Recipes here are for demo purposes. Read the explanatory information about how to adjust, how it was formulated, links to similar ones, links to ones earlier or later in the series. There are an unlimited number of ways to make any one of them fail, learn to understand glazes, learn to adjust recipes to work in your circumstances (rather than throw them out and search for one that might have even more problems). Get a good base that does not craze on your clay, that melts right, does not leach, is compatible with your colors, does not settle in the bucket, applies well, etc. Once you have that base you can color it, opacify it, variegate it. But remember, Digitalfire has never been about trading recipes, we teach people to see glazes as oxide formulas instead. Our ultimate hope is that you will learn the chemistry so well that you can use software to demonstrate problems with a glaze by posting here. That would vindicate the value of glaze chemistry. Be warned, "the illicit trade in glaze recipes" promises a pot of gold that is not there, it will take you down a 20 year road of wasted time.

The industrial ceramic world generally revolves around fancy production machines. But behind the scenes engineers and technicians are the real heroes, they supply the body and glaze recipes that make the machines work and they adapt these to the requirements of the machine. Actually, in most cases this is not true, suppliers actually provide ready-made recipes, the factories just use them and complain to supplier technical support when there are problems. In the pottery world, the opposite situation exists. There is a 'recipe culture', tens-of-thousands are available in textbooks and on the internet. Many people carefully guard their recipes, adapting their production techniques and equipment to them (and often exercising great patience tolerating less-than-ideal behaviors).

In both cases the recipes are not generally 'understood' by production staff. That means they are not controlled. People do not know why each ingredient is in a recipe or even what each is. They generally do not understand how a recipe might be adjusted to fix a problem, or, be better adapted to their production situation. Most critically, they do not understand how to evaluate problems and ask the right questions. This is the reason why we recommend a material-centered ceramic knowledge universe and a production situation where technical staff at a facility have control and understanding. Understanding materials means knowing their mineralogy, their physical properties, and most import, their chemistry. Using these materials in recipes means it is necessary to understand how they interact and contribute their physical properties and oxide chemistry. Recipes in this section are presented with links to material and oxide information, putting them into the proper context. We intend that you adjust any recipe you find here to adapt it to your situation.

Links

Articles	Where do I start in understanding glazes? Break your addiction to online recipes that don't work or bottled expensive glazes that you could DIY. Learn why glazes fire as they do. Why each material is used. How to create perfect dipping and brushing properties. Even some chemistry.
Articles	Glaze Recipes: Formulate and Make Your Own Instead The only way you will ever get the glaze you really need is to formulate your own. The longer you stay on the glaze recipe treadmill the more time you waste.
Articles	The Four Levels on Which to View Ceramic Glazes By knowing which level to view a glaze from you are much better equipped to understand and control it. The levels are process, recipe, material, oxide.
Articles	Concentrate on One Good Glaze It is better to understand and have control of one good base glaze than be at the mercy of dozens of imported recipes that do not work. There is a lot more to being a good glaze than fired appearance.
Articles	Why Textbook Glazes Are So Difficult The trade is glaze recipes has spawned generations of potters going up blind alleys trying recipes that don't work and living with ones that are much more trouble than they are worth. It is time to leave this behind and take control.
Articles	Trafficking in Glaze Recipes The trade is glaze recipes has spawned generations of potters going up blind alleys trying recipes that don't work and living with ones that are much more trouble than they are worth. It is time to leave this behind and take control.
Glossary	Batch Recipe In ceramics, glazes are made by weighing out dry ceramic powdered materials to fill a recipe. Batch recipes often are a combination of a base recipe and additions.
Media	Desktop Insight 5A - Glaze Formula to Batch Calculations Learn to use a non-unity calculation to convert a formula into a batch recipe using theoretical and real-world materials. Retotal, round-off and make a side-by-side report.

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