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Featured Glazes
At the Potter’s House, we mix our glazes using
a wide variety of powdered minerals according to formulas we’ve
devised down through the years to fit our clays and firing methods.
These minerals not only determine the final color of the glaze but
also create various textures as well. Our labors with glazes for the
past 15 years have brought forth the 11 glazes and glaze combinations
we feature today.
Homestead
Green • Brazos Sage
• Celadon
Bluebonnet • Homestead
Blue • Traditional Blue Banded
• Cobalt
Cranberry • Fuchsia
• Antique Wheat •
Desert Tones
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Our Signature Pottery —
Homestead Green
Earthy green, rich golden tones and burnt
umber swirl together to make this stunning glaze effect. The
combining and melding of these glazes creates a unique design
on each vessel, with no two pieces emerging from the kiln alike.
Today it is our most popular glaze. |

Brown & Bronze Glazes

Desert Tones
Southwestern
desert colors contrasted by a rich fluid green comprise this
stunning glaze.
This glaze is a combination of six different
colors, ranging from a hard, dry matte and a fluid high gloss,
which create a beautiful effect of color as well as texture.
All of the glazes are applied by airbrushing. This is quickly
becoming one of our best-selling lines. |
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Antique Wheat
This design
combines hand-carving, antiquing and bronzing with an added
contrasting trim of shiny white or royal blue.
Each wheat design is carefully hand-carved
into the clay body while the finished vessel is halfway dry
and still in a leather-hard stage. We use several tools to carve
the wheat kernels and the stalks. Once the carved piece fully
dries and is bisqued, we antique the design with a wash of dark
bronze glaze, wiping it off the vessel’s wall, but leaving
the glaze in the creases of the design. We then glaze the rims
to be a glossy white or a bright royal blue. As a finishing
touch, we spray the vessel once again with a thin glaze that
looks burnished once the vessel is fired. |
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Red Glazes

Fuchsia
This dramatic
glaze breaks into a medley of variegated hues in reds, purples
and blues with touches of frosty white.
The playful nature of this glaze yields a
pleasant variety of glaze effects. The unexpected breaking and
gradients of colors make each piece distinctive.
Fuchsia is one of those glazes that needs
a very thick coating of glaze. We have to be careful it isn’t
applied so thick that it runs onto the kiln shelf. |
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Cranberry
Deep, rich
red tones underlie a sparkling, glossy surface in this unusual
glaze.
In our experimentation with reds, we happened
onto this recipe which results in a high-gloss coverage of graduated
red and cranberry tones. This glaze does best when applied as
a thinly sprayed coat. This is unusual, for most reds demand
a very thick coat. It is one of our newly developed glazes and
looks quite promising for future combinations. |
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