Shino Glaze

David Hooker on Instagram: "A peek into my new favorite glazing process: layered shino glazes with finger swipes and copious amounts of wood ash. There are tons of shino glaze recipes out there for cone 10 reduction. I’m using a red shino layer underneath, and a white shino on top. When I do the finger swipes the red shino peaks out from underneath. Shino glazes can be VERY finicky! I’ve been experimenting with them most of my 30+ year career, but more extensively in the past five years. The…

Glazy Ceramics Pottery Recipe: Glaze, Glaze, Cone 10, Reduction

Traditional Japanese high feldspar glazes having cream to orange color flashing or blushing. Potters today seek to emulate the Shino appearance using a wide range of recipes.

Since posting this Shino Tea Bowl on my facebook page I’ve received several emails asking what glaze combination(s) I used. The fact is this is a single application of a shino glaze I use qui…

Favorite Glaze Recipes - posted in Clay and Glaze Chemistry: I did some searching and didnt find much as far as favorite glaze recipes, so I thought Id start this. What are your favorite glaze recipes? Include pictures OF COURSE!!!! American Shino, Cone 10 Reduction: 50 Nepheline Syenite 25 Ball Clay 25 Spodumene 0-2 Soda Ash Yellow Matte, Cone 10 Reduction: 50 Nepheline Syenite 25 Epk 25 Whiting Mackenzie Grey, Cone 10 Reduction: 50 Custer Feldsp...

I thought I would post the following images of Chawan and Yunomi I’ve made over the years using Shino over other glazes. The old saying is “shino first or suffer the curse”, the c…