Stop Glazing Your Pottery

Glaze is wonderful stuff but it’s not the only way to finish pottery and a lot of people unfortunately think it is. Let’s talk about just how food safe glazed and unglazed pottery can be and what glaze alternatives exist. There are many good reasons to not glaze your pottery and one of those is the texture and beauty of the raw clay surface with gets lost under gobs of chemical glaze. 🔗 LINKS Sealing earthenware - Liquid Quartz - Common sense - and bacteria: is there a hazard? Burnishing - Organic paint - Mineral paint - Making and using colorful clay slips - 🏺 My students and I make pottery together over Zoom every Wednesday evening. Please consider joining us ❤A