Green Glazes

Homestead Green

This glaze technique combines dipping, pouring and brush work, which results in a variegated tumbling effect unique to each handcrafted piece.

For these rich tones, we combine Brazos Sage, a celadon and a wash of red iron and rutile. We offer this as a full line of wheel-thrown and handbuilt pottery in dozens of vessel shapes, sizes and functions. Homestead Green features as our signature pottery.

Brazos Sage

This combination of minerals produces a beautiful, softly mottled sage green glaze. In some firings, it emerges from the kiln colored with lavender or blue hues. At other times minute, cream-colored crystals appear.

Through a time of glaze development over five years ago, we found this warm sage green, which we named Brazos Sage. This wonderful glaze is achieved by one simple dip into our 15 gallon vat, although we must use care to get just the right thickness of glaze on each pot. Brazos Sage demands the hottest spots in the kiln, requiring temperatures of at least 2400ºF to get the effects we want.

Our Celadons

These pale, delicate green glazes uniformly coat our vessels with a smooth, opaque finish.

Celadons require an unusually thick layer of glaze. We found the best way to achieve this thickness is to dip the vessel in the liquid glaze and let it dry overnight, then spray an additional layer on the following day. We offer pottery in both a light and a dark celadon. Both are traditional Oriental glazes—one is commonly found in Thailand; the other is traditionally Chinese.

See also our line of Desert Tones pottery, which contains splashes of a deep green.

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