Salt Glazed Ceramics
Salt firing and salt glazing have been common practice in ceramics for centuries initially as an industrial glazing method and then as an artistic treatment and technique in studio ceramics.
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Salt glaze or salt glaze pottery is pottery usually stoneware with a glaze of glossy translucent and slightly orange peel like texture which was formed by throwing common salt into the kiln during the higher temperature part of the firing process. These gorgeous pieces are each one of a kind. Salt glaze is the original red wing method of glazing pottery. Salt glazed pottery will sometimes show brown spots which are iron particles that are natural to the clay additionally a piece may show burn or scorch marks stacking marks even fingerprints from the salt firing in the kiln this is normal the salt glaze pottery gets its name from the infusion of salt during the firing process.
Due to the inexact science of controlling the salt application each and every piece is unique. Every potter wants to be certain that the products they are selling are safe and will stand up to the rigors of use in the kitchen. Today salt glazing is called vapor glazing a name the technique received from the sodium vapors caused by the salt that the potter throws into the kiln when. But because there are so many variables involved in ceramic glazes clay body and glaze fit variability in chemical content temperature variability in kilns organic materials etc it can be challenging to know whether the food safe ceramic glaze recipe you.
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