71. How to Make a Pottery Glaze from Fallen Leaves - Making the Glaze
Oxford Clay Podcast
Episode 71. How to Make a Pottery Glaze from Fallen Leaves - Making the Glaze
It's Autumn here in the UK and the leaves on the trees are starting to fall! But did you know that you can actually make a pottery glaze from fallen leaves?
Whilst wood ash is often quoted in glaze recipes, leaf ash can actually be used instead. In fact it is often the leaves of plants which have fallen naturally at the end of their growing cycle which create the most beautiful pottery glazes!
In part two of this two-part episode series on making pottery glazes with fallen leaf ash we discuss:
How to make a stoneware glaze using quartz, cornish stone, leaf ash and water.
How to weigh out glaze-making ingredients.
How to mix a glaze and sieve it.
The ash glazing recipe in this episode and also used in the book Leaf Ash Glazing: A guide to sustainable pottery glazing with fallen leaves is:
Quartz - 20 Parts
Cornish Stone - 40 Parts
Leaf Ash - 40 Parts
Water - to make up to the consistency of single cream.
The eBook Leaf Ash Glazing: A guide to sustainable pottery glazing with fallen leaves is available here.
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