Free Online Glaze Chemistry Lesson: Craze-y For You | Ceramic Materials Workshop

In this video, learn what crazing is, some of the myths about it, the issues behind it and some simple ways to avoid it.
This is just one segment from one of our online workshops: Glaze of Our Lives: Our beginner workshop. It is one of our on-demand workshops with over 12 hours of content to help people with no, or little experience learn about what glazes are and how they work. We answer all of those questions you've always wondered about and smash a lot of those ceramic myths you may have been told.
You can also learn more about crazing by reading our blog article - Ceramic Glaze Crazing: Unveiling Causes, Myths, Concerns, and Aesthetic Potential - posted on our website here: ceramicmaterialsworkshop.com/...
If you would like to learn more about our glaze and clay courses, check out our website: www.ceramicmaterialsworkshop.com
Ceramic Materials ​Workshop is a place online to understand and explore how and why our Clay and Glazes work (and don’t work). Our materials speak for us in the home and gallery. It benefits us to learn about how to speak through our materials. Mastering the skills of clay and glaze performance helps every ceramicist, become their best self in the studio.
Enroll here in Glaze of Our Lives: Understanding Glazes for the Beginner
ceramicmaterialsworkshop.thin...
Use promo code - glaze50off - at time of checkout to receive 50% discount
Tags for this video: glaze course, beginner glaze course, Glaze Chemistry, glaze calc, glaze of our lives, ceramic materials workshop, U.M.F., ceramic glazes, glazes, pottery

[@johncartwright4041]

As a Physical Chemist I enjoyed the approach of this video to the problem of crazing. I'll be watching more of your videos and have subscribed.

[@marciapatriceganeles-kisli4373]

Great video Matt. Thanks so much for making this available to us.

[@turtlepower636]

Thanks! Personally had crazing until the realization I wasn't firing high enough.

[@alex-hp1ix]

Excellent information as always! Thank You for sharing!

[@RoosKohn]

Good show and tell. thanks

[@slice51]

Great video Matt

[@ceramicmaterialsworkshop]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@rachelbrown9370]

This was a great video, really informative. What if you're using a commercial glaze which you don't know the properties/percentages of chemically? How can you know if a certain glaze is going to be a good match/fit to your clay body? Or is it just a case of repeat test firings?

[@lucyb3885]

Call the company or write to them?

[@andreaharz6573]

I use transparent low fire brush on glaze fired at 1040 on to an earthenware body bisqued to 1000. I'm getting crazing which is really annoying. Would trying out a different glaze help?

[@mayfieldslv]

I would like to take the online course but the link is 404.

[@ceramicmaterialsworkshop]

Whoops, Sorry. Here is the link. www.ceramicmaterialsworkshop.com/glaze-of-our-lives.html

[@pilardicio7266]

Hi! By flint you mean silex?

[@matthewkatz7320]

Correct