Stop Glazing Your Pottery

Glaze is wonderful stuff but it's not the only way to finish pottery and a lot of people unfortunately think it is. Let's talk about just how food safe glazed and unglazed pottery can be and what glaze alternatives exist. There are many good reasons to not glaze your pottery and one of those is the texture and beauty of the raw clay surface with gets lost under gobs of chemical glaze.

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Sealing earthenware - https://youtu.be/Ln4jKlfruaw
Liquid Quartz - https://youtu.be/Swf-tb2zIC8
Common sense - https://digitalfire.com/article/crazing+and+bacteria%3A+is+there+a+hazard%3F
Burnishing - https://youtu.be/-z8DPrITMPo
Organic paint - https://youtu.be/kiy1gbmyRuc
Mineral paint - https://youtu.be/FGj-hyKZ8eM
Making and using colorful clay slips - https://youtu.be/FGj-hyKZ8eM

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0:00 Why I hate glaze
0:30 History of unglazed pottery
1:35 Is unglazed pottery food safe?
2:34 Is glazed pottery food safe?
2:57 Common sense for pottery that is not "food safe"
3:41 Why not glaze pottery?
5:27 Some glaze alternatives

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