Flashing Slip For Wood Fired Ceramics

One way to achieve flashing in a modern kiln is a flashing slip.

Flashing slip for wood fired ceramics. Medium orange atmosphere. While wood kiln firing isn t easy the results are incomparable. Laura conley on thu 5 feb 98 hello i have the opportunity to participate in a wood firing and am wondering how to decorate the surfaces of my pots. The firing should be about cone 10 11.

Flashing slips contain high levels of alumina. Developed by randy johnston this classic yellow to orange to red flashing slip works well in both wood and soda atmospheres. Flashing is not the natural byproduct of a more contemporary kiln. The salt vaporizes and sodium vapor combines with silica in clay surface forming extremely hard sodium silicate glaze.

I have heard about a flashing slip and wonder if someone might share some recipes. It yields rusty oranges deep browns and yellow flashing with a matte surface texture. In this section you ll find flashing slip and glaze recipes to use in an atmospheric salt soda and or wood firing. Soda firing has been touted.

Reduction salt soda wood published in atmospheric glazes by lisa york in the dec 2015 issue of ceramics monthly. Now with so many fuel options available to the potter wood fired kilns are more of a choice than a necessity. It can crackle around seams so dry slowly. This slip can be applied thinner and dipped or it can be applied thick with a brush or hand.

Salt firing is a vapor glazing process where salt sodium chloride is introduced into the kiln firebox at high temperature. The image shown here is the flashing slip recipe on porcelain with honey celadon glaze over the flashing slip in some areas. Flashing slip slip that is painted or dipped onto wares in order to promote flashing effects in the firing. This slip can be applied in varying thicknesses to leather hard greenware.

Since humans first began to understand how fire hardened clay we have been making ceramics both in pits and in wood kilns. Many potters want to recreate the look without spending 3 days stoking a wood burning kiln. Flashing slip for woodfire updated mon 9 feb 98.