How To Glaze Ceramic Beads

After your piece has been glazed the light will bounce off the glass making it look quite a lot like a precious jewel.

How to glaze ceramic beads.

It focuses on glazing ceramic clay pendants. But once the beads have been bisque fired and then glazed they must be suspended by stilt rods also called bead rods. Egyptian glass is an early form of ceramic glaze. If you use them too soon the glaze may turn sticky.

This video was uploaded from an android phone. Once you ve made the beads then prepare the glaze mixing a small amount of colour with the glaze in a separate container. Putting glass beads in your pottery can create the most amazing results. The colors so bold and vibrant really catch the eye.

Any ceramic work you produce with glass is guaranteed to be a bit of a showstopper. You can either spray or paint the beads with a clear glaze. The blue beads are called egyptian glass. Slide the beads back onto the toothpick or tapestry needle.

Let the glaze dry and cure fully before you move the beads. Since the beads are glazed they cannot be placed on the kiln shelf. As people learned more about glass and glazes chemicals were added as colorants to melt glass at lower temperatures and make it more flexible for more forming techniques. Recorded on september 6 2010 ceramic glaze over bisque.

The consistence will vary depending on the strength of colour but with this dark blue i ve gone for about 10 parts varnish to one part paint.