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. 🔗 LINKS Sealing earthenware -    • The Best Way To Seal Earthenware Pottery, ...   Liquid Quartz -    • Sealing Earthenware Pottery With Liquid Qu...   Common sense - https://digitalfire.com/article/crazi... Burnishing -    • When Is the Right Time to Burnish Pottery?...   Organic paint -    • Nuts & Bolts of Oxidized Organic Painted P...   Mineral paint -    • How To Make Clay Slip For Colorful Pottery   Making and using colorful clay slips -    • How To Make Clay Slip For Colorful Pottery   🏺 My students and I make pottery together over Zoom every Wednesday evening. Please consider joining us https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-po... ❤️ Please help support my channel Channel membership    / ancientpottery   T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.cr... 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and online masterclasses to improve your pottery making skills. https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook -   / andywardpottery   Instagram -   / ancientpottery   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 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.