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Found it and added it. Thanks Jeff.
The glaze is really not so much a white as a calcium semi-matte, made even more white and opaque from the magnesium in the Dolomite.
Probably like the calcium semi-mattes from "Mastering Cone 6 Glazes", the glaze is fairly stiff so won't interact much with a more fluid glaze layered over it - so an ideal ceramic canvas gesso.
I've found putting down a layer of a ^6 glaze like this can make leaded manganese gold ^06 glazes turn really metallic and lustrous as they provide a platform and seal the low fire glaze off from the clay body.
Hi Norm,
If you do a search on this website for "tabletop", it will pull up Donna's post with the pic at the top. jhp
A photo of Donna's Matte White with just another glaze on the rim would be perfect.
I think attaching those photos is misleading as they were layered with other glazes. There are pics of Donna's White Matt with just another glaze on the rim that would represent the glaze by itself. jhp
So just to clarify, the recipe in the previous post is for Obsidian. I did some hunting & found Donna's White. I call it Donna's White cause it cam e from Donna F, but in reality she just calls it Matt White. It's posted below. I don't know if it is already in the database.
matte white
Cornwall stone 21%
Ferro 3134 22%
Dolomite 21%
Om4 Ball Clay 15%
Flint 20%
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99%
bentonite 2%
this is a flat matte white glaze, smooth surface,my experience has been firing it from cone 5-6 1/2 with good results
for colors add
.50% periwinkle blue
4% rutile for a semi matte white, that breaks over dark clay nicely
4% CuCO3 for a copper matte
3% RIO, 1.75% CuCO3, .375% magansese dioxide, .50% rutile for a mustardly brown green
I just checked Eric Preece's blog and what I found was 75 % Alberta, 25 % 3134 & 5 % Cobalt Oxide jhp
I thought it was already there. I know its on the site cause that's where I got it from. It came from Donna Ferrera. I thought she had put it in there. Frogskin is in there as it came from Kathy Ransom. Obsidian came from a guy that used to be on here but I don't think he has been for quite awhile. I think Obsidian is 80 % Albany or a reasonable facsimile thereof, 20 % GB and 5 % Cobalt Oxide.... I'll have to check for sure. jhp
Very nice Jeff. Do us all a favor and add the recipe for "Donna's White" to the Insight-Live glaze database.
Or email me the recipe and I'll add the recipe.
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