Making Glaze Sprinkles / Speckles
Channel: Old Forge Creations
Date: 2020-10-21

How to add speckles of one glaze inside another.

This is done with a process called sintering, which is the glaze equivalent of bisquing. The sprinkles are mixed, dried, crushed, and fired in a bisque firing. This sets them solid without melting them together.

The recipe used for the sprinkles here is: 

Custer Feldspar - 46%
Silica - 23%
Whiting - 16%
EP Kaolin - 12%
Gerstley Borate - 3%
+ Stain or zircon (zircopax/zircosil) - 5-10%
+ Bentonite - 2%

And for the main blue glaze:

Custer Feldspar - 43
Silica - 24
EP Kaolin - 13
Whiting - 10.5
Gerstley Borate - 9.5
 + Bentonite - 2
 + Cobalt Carbonate - 1
 + Manganese Dioxide - 1
 + Chrome Oxide - 0.1

See the previous version at this blog post: https://www.oldforgecreations.co.uk/blog/glaze-sprinkles-at-cone-6

The previous glaze had sprinkles bisque fired hotter (1050c rather than 1000c for this one), and had some additional fluxing from the cobalt, so the recipe was different.

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