Welcome to Understanding Pottery, Chapter 6: Glaze Firing. In this podcast you will learn about the changes that happen to change clay and glaze into a finished ceramic piece.

Understanding Pottery is a series in production by Washington Street Studios. The podcast series is a digital textbook that will take the listener through the entire ceramic process from the raw material through the finished ceramic pieces. There are five sections and twenty-six chapters planned in the series and they are:

Section I: The Pottery Making Sequence

Chapter 1: What is Clay?

Chapter 2: Clay Properties and Drying

Chapter 3: Bisque Firing

Chapter 4: Tips for Successful Glazing

Chapter 5: Pyrometric Cones

Chapter 6: Glaze Firing

Section II: Use of Raw Materials

Chapter 7: Chemistry for Potters

Chapter 8: Glaze Chemistry

Chapter 9: Oxides, Washes, Underglazes and Stains

Chapter 10: Geology for Potters

Chapter 11: Use of Local Materials

Section III: Kilns and Firings

Chapter 12: Atmospheric Firings

Chapter 13: Wood-Fired Kilns

Chapter 14: Gas-Fired Kilns

Chapter 15: Electric Kilns

Chapter 16: Raku Kilns

Section IV: Solving Problems

Chapter 17: Kiln Performance Problems

Chapter 18: Clay Body Defects

Chapter 19: Glaze Defects

Section V: Practical Applications

Chapter 20: Pottery Myths, Errors and Misconceptions

Chapter 21: Thixotropy, Quartz Inversions and Other Pottery Mysteries

Chapter 22: Pottery and Physics

Chapter 23: Pottery Figurin’ (Math)

Chapter 24: Personal Safety with Pottery

Chapter 25: Critiquing Your Own Pottery: Design Principles You Can Use

Chapter 26: Tips for Buying Used Pottery Equipment

Show notes can be found at https://www.hfclay.com/the-potters-round-table

This podcast is brought to you by Washington Street Studios, a community pottery studio, gallery and pottery school located in Harpers Ferry / Bolivar, WV. We exist to provide ceramic artists an affordable, fully equipped studio space for aspiring, emerging and established artists to share their creative energy