Marbling Ceramic Glaze
Not lost in the mists of time.
Marbling ceramic glaze. Once you have made your pottery piece you can have some fun and unleash your creativity with some brilliant decorating ideas. Thorburn using slip and glaze recipes that had been handed down for generations. Marbling with clay or slips is a great way to make your pottery into a work of art. She adds in the comments of the video that her team adds cmc to delay the drying of the glaze which is vital to marbling the glaze and another additive to dissolve the gum as well.
After the marble glazes have dried over night the whole piece is dipped in a clear liner glaze the next day. Schofield who was taught by mr. If you re using slips it s almost like art in a sense. This is even more important with slip pottery than clay marbling.
The history of marbling in europe dated back to around the 17th century and was particularly popular in staffordshire in england. Yes well i ve been practising marbling since i learned how to do it about thirty years ago at wetheriggs pottery near penrith in cumbria england.