05/09/2026
Development of the glaze… oh what a ride it has been.
You see quite colorful plates but actually I was just looking for good off white or light beige and greens. At some point one option of color was mustard too, but we skipped that eventually.
Green was so difficult to get because of the base recipe that turned all my efforts into brown 😄. Finally I got really good light green option and wasn’t planning to add any other greens to the plate, but…
While figuring out the dark grey some so called blacks turned out dark green 😂 As it was the most beautiful green I have ever seen we decided to add this color to the collection too. Really too like these kinds of happy accidents.
Then I needed to tweak the recipe to get its melting point lower so it could be fired together with other glazes that I use, as it’s not that simple to get 190 liters of items every time I need to test a glaze 🫣 That is the capacity of my kiln and it needs to be full in order to get correct results. Getting the melting point down was a bit of a puzzle, but I have the greatest friends and together with talented Margit Terasmees we found a solution.
Another task was to find the best way to apply it. Tested different approaches of dipping and pouring but yet again it’s not as straightforward you might think. For dipping you need a lot of liquid glaze, but while still developing and testing it, you just don’t have enough glaze to dip large plate in it. Yes, you could use tiny test plates, but it is almost impossible to predict the actual result on a small item as the physical size and shape of the actual piece determines how the glaze acts while glazing and then in firing. So some bigger plates were sacrificed as test plates.
So finally I have my own original glaze recipe that is sensitive and stubborn like a child. But if taken care in a thoughtful manner, loved and cherished, it gives back in the most beautiful playful ways.
