• The results of our most recent glaze tests (plus a few gems from Friday's firing). The replacement of the iron-bearing clay, Redart, with a cleaner kaolin was successful and yielded a glaze base that accepts more nuanced coloring oxide additions while still giving us the rivulets texture. We won't necessarily put these to use, but they all warrant further testing. Which one(s) do you you like? . . . #glazetesting #ceramics #hamiltonwilliams #glazechemistry #chemistry #workinprogress #testing #ashglazes #ash #fakeash #berrybowl #stoneware #handmadepottery #vases #flowervases #earthtones #design #productdevelopment #liddedjar #ceramicschemistry #morgantonnc #potteryart #ncartist #wnc
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    The results of our most recent glaze tests (plus a few gems from Friday's firing). The replacement of the iron-bearing clay, Redart, with a cleaner kaolin was successful and yielded a glaze base that accepts more nuanced coloring oxide additions while still giving us the rivulets texture. We won't necessarily put these to use, but they all warrant further testing. Which one(s) do you you like? . . . #glazetesting #ceramics #hamiltonwilliams #glazechemistry #chemistry #workinprogress #testing #ashglazes #ash #fakeash #berrybowl #stoneware #handmadepottery #vases #flowervases #earthtones #design #productdevelopment #liddedjar #ceramicschemistry #morgantonnc #potteryart #ncartist #wnc
  • We took some better photos of the new work and glazes while the next load fires in the kiln! Looking forward to seeing what the new glaze tests look like, but we're still pretty thrilled with the way these glazes are working for us! . We'll get more photos finished and list a collection of the nautilus work on our website as soon as possible for those outside our area. Keep an eye out! . . . #nautiluspottery #nautilus #spiraldesigns #hamiltonwilliams #newwork #ashglazes #blueash #handmadeplatters #handmadejars #handmadeceramics #newglazes #newworkinthegallery #downtonmorganton #morgantonnc
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    We took some better photos of the new work and glazes while the next load fires in the kiln! Looking forward to seeing what the new glaze tests look like, but we're still pretty thrilled with the way these glazes are working for us! . We'll get more photos finished and list a collection of the nautilus work on our website as soon as possible for those outside our area. Keep an eye out! . . . #nautiluspottery #nautilus #spiraldesigns #hamiltonwilliams #newwork #ashglazes #blueash #handmadeplatters #handmadejars #handmadeceramics #newglazes #newworkinthegallery #downtonmorganton #morgantonnc
  • Don't forget to join us for tonight's Third Thursday Art Crawl in downtown Morganton! Check our new work and get your hands dirty at our walk-in workshop! Our workshop activities end at 7:30, but the crawl goes until 8:30.
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    Don't forget to join us for tonight's Third Thursday Art Crawl in downtown Morganton! Check our new work and get your hands dirty at our walk-in workshop! Our workshop activities end at 7:30, but the crawl goes until 8:30.
  • Delving back into some glaze chemistry this afternoon! The goal today is to reformulate a widely used glaze into something we can more readily develop into more varied colors. The original glaze is Hannah's Fake Ash, which uses an iron-rich clay as one of its primary ingredients. It's a beautiful glaze (pictured center) with rich earth tones and distinctive rivulets, but because of the high iron content it doesn't lend itself to a great variety of colors. The solution? Use a cleaner (lower iron) clay for the glaze while maintaining the same, or similar, oxide makeup so that we can plug other coloring oxides such as chromium, cobalt, or copper into the mix without the iron muddying them up. . After much figuring and blanching of materials, I've come up with a good possibility. Now we will mix up a small 100-gram batch to see what the resulting glaze actually looks like. Despite what the numbers on the screen say, the test glaze may not perform as hoped... in which case we reformulate and test again. . . . #glazechemistry #hannahsash #testing #glazetesting #productdevelopment #glazedevelopment #tryingnewthings #design #glazecalculation #researchanddevelopment #newglazes #reduction #reductionglazes #ashglaze #fakeash #formulation #testtesttest #colors
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    Delving back into some glaze chemistry this afternoon! The goal today is to reformulate a widely used glaze into something we can more readily develop into more varied colors. The original glaze is Hannah's Fake Ash, which uses an iron-rich clay as one of its primary ingredients. It's a beautiful glaze (pictured center) with rich earth tones and distinctive rivulets, but because of the high iron content it doesn't lend itself to a great variety of colors. The solution? Use a cleaner (lower iron) clay for the glaze while maintaining the same, or similar, oxide makeup so that we can plug other coloring oxides such as chromium, cobalt, or copper into the mix without the iron muddying them up. . After much figuring and blanching of materials, I've come up with a good possibility. Now we will mix up a small 100-gram batch to see what the resulting glaze actually looks like. Despite what the numbers on the screen say, the test glaze may not perform as hoped... in which case we reformulate and test again. . . . #glazechemistry #hannahsash #testing #glazetesting #productdevelopment #glazedevelopment #tryingnewthings #design #glazecalculation #researchanddevelopment #newglazes #reduction #reductionglazes #ashglaze #fakeash #formulation #testtesttest #colors