My summer has been full of custom ceramic orders. Since it's wedding season, I have been making a number of wedding plates. I am always relieved when they come out of the kiln as expected. I opened up a load yesterday and found these three celebration plates that thankfully turned out well. The rest of the load was hit and miss.
I have a green glaze that is beautiful but runs like crazy - so that happened more than I had expected. I need to wax higher on those pieces next time. I also had a big problem with a large lot of soap dispensers that didn't shrink as much as I expected so sadly, the dispenser spouts don't fit. 12% is the typical shrink rate for the clay body that I use. I'm not sure if I mismeasured or if it's this new batch of clay that I used. *uff da* I'm hoping the people waiting for these aren't too upset.
