The Potter's House at Homestead Heritage




   

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 GreenBrazos SageCeladon
BluebonnetHomestead BlueTraditional Blue BandedCobalt
CranberryFuchsiaAntique WheatDesert Tones

— 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.

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.

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.

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.

 

For information about ordering our pottery, please call or write
The Potter’s House • 608 Dry Creek Road • Waco, TX 76705 • 254/754-9600

 


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