Creative Ceramic Glaze Test Tiles

Two versions of this glaze library of test tiles can be viewed in person.

Creative ceramic glaze test tiles.

Test pieces formed more like the ware the glaze will be used on give more information but may be impractical to do for every glaze test. Tile shaped samples are easy to display and stack but may not show how a glaze will act on the inside of a bowl for example. Most people use some form of. Fired to maturity but lacking a sealing glaze the low fire earthenware clay tiles have have a porous non vitreous surface.

Making a test tile. Glaze tests and test tiles there are many benefits to having test tiles for glazes. Unglazed ceramic tiles for crafts. Make a series of test tiles four inches by four inches is a standard size to cut them.

There are a number of ways to do this but this is the process i use. There followed a frenzy of glaze testing 1500 glaze tests to get to the final of nearly 500. Otherwise if you re like me you forget very quickly. Cut into squares or rectangles.

I would say 1 2 inch is on the thick side and typically go thinner. Jan 28 2015 a piece of clay used to test how a glaze or clay will look after it s fired. Test out your brushwork from shapes to patterns. One is on the wall of the ceramics workshop at gray s school of art where all the glaze tests were mixed in their glaze lab and fired in their kilns.

Test tiles can take many forms. A creative commons attribution license cc by states that the material can be shared remixed and used. Its square design makes it perfect to fire multiple shelves of test tiles and with it s 9 depth you can actually test short cylinders to see how your glaze performs on a vertical surface. See more ideas about ceramics pottery studio ceramic techniques.

The first step in this glazing process is to make a test tile. Bushcraft clay and store bought clay glaze test tiles and kid s ceramic crafts. Unlike most test kilns the glazetech is designed to run on 240 volts but still only requires a 20amp breaker 208 volt models require a 30 amp breaker. Dal tile unglazed ceramic tiles are a key product for decorative and hobby ceramic studios and industrial laboratory applications.

It allows you to test combinations of glazes easily and inexpensively and serves as a permanent reminder of what a glaze looked like on a certain clay.