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About tile glazes.....
A combination of techniques (painting,
sponging, dragging, wax-resist, stencilling) are used to build up the
layers of colour to give the desired effect and required amount of detail.
This often means numerous firings. Most tiles are suitable for on-glaze,
but some do fire better than others. And it is best to paint onto a
relatively light coloured base tile. Before you commit to a particular
tile we will test fire a sample.
We decorate tiles using ‘on-glaze’. As the name
suggests, coloured glazes are applied on top of an already glazed and fired
tile. This could be a standard tile from your local tile shop. This is what we
call the ‘base’ tile. Firing is the term given to the actual heating up of the
tile to a high temperature in a kiln (typically 800°C for on-glaze). The
coloured glazes then fuse onto the surface of the base tile.
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