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    LINDA BLOOMFIELD GLAZE BASICS: MAKING AND APPLYING A BATCH OF GLAZE

    Mar 18, 2022 3 minutes

    Linda Bloomfield is a scientist turned potter. More glaze recipes can be found in her books, Advanced Pottery (2011), Colour in Glazes (A&C Black 2012), The Handbook of Glaze Recipes (Bloomsbury 2014) and Science for Potters (The American Ceramic Society 2017). Her new book Special Effect Glazes, and the second edition of Colour in Glazes are both out now. Linda has recently launched her online glazing course, How Glazes Work, on her website: lindabloomfield.co.uk

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    The first task is to scale up the glaze recipe from a 100g batch to a 3kg

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