Blue Ridge Pottery - Glazes

Our Colors and Patterns:

Copper Grape
Eggshell and Chun
Green
Miami and Chun
Rainbow Chun
Sangre de Boeuf

About Glazing
Our Kilns

Copper Grape

This is a deep blue glaze with a deep purple hint.  The glaze includes copper and cobalt carbonates and depending on the amount of reduction and position in the kiln will vary between deep blue and midnight purple.  With some of the light over-glaze such as Miami using rutlile as its oxide this glaze looks like the milky way on a deep purple sky.

 

 

Eggshell and Chun

The Eggshell glaze has the appearance of a light brown egg, hence the name.  This glaze includes a small amount of Iron Oxide, which gives it a light brown appearance.  However, the copper carbonate based chun glaze reacts with the iron, when used as a decorative over-glaze, to create a very well defined Chinese Red. 

 

 

Miami and Chun

These Glazes have been changed and modified over the years and continue to create an amazing medium blue with light crystal growth throughout the decorated area.  This glaze now brings together oxides of copper and cobalt along with zinc oxide to create these colors.

 

 

Forest Green

One of the more difficult glazes we have created.  This glaze was an attempt to reproduce the Greens of the Blue Ridge Mountain forest around our studio.  After three years of trial and error experiments we finally perfected this glaze in 2004.  Now our second most popular color this green can have highlights of red in it in higher reduction areas of the kiln.

 

Rainbow Chun

This glaze uses copper carbonate as its colorant and is decorated with our cobalt and crystalline glazes.  By alternating the glazes on the exterior of the piece it is possible to create a wide range of reds, purples, greens and blues.  This is a glaze which melts at slightly lower temperatures and likes cooler locations in the kiln.

 

Sangre De Boeuf (Blood of the Bull)(Red)

This is the most difficult of all of our glazes.  While we have specially built our kilns to get these reds they are still among the most challenging of all our glazes.  The copper reds require a very delicate balance of reduction and heating or else they will turn our green or clear.

 

 

Also see: Glazing, & Our Kilns