TITLE:
Creating Matte and Opaque Stable Colored Glazes on Local Omani Earthenware Pottery: Testing White Zircon Borax Frit Glaze Recipes
AUTHORS:
Badar Almamari, Najlaa Alsaadi, Qais Alsalhi
KEYWORDS:
Earthenware Clay, Matte Glazes, WZBF, Oman
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.12 No.11,
November
4,
2022
ABSTRACT: The ability of Omani local pottery earthenware to accept low- and medium-temperature fired glazes can face technical
difficulties. The impurities included in the clays extracted from local
fields, especially iron oxide, are a noted weakness that affects painting the
local pottery with shiny, opaque, or matte glazes. Previously published
research conducted by the researcher on Omani earthenware clays focused on
finding a special transparent, shiny, and stable glazing recipe, but few
studies have provided matte and opaque glazing recipes that are technically
suitable for local Omani clays. By using laboratory-based experimental
methodology, this research will investigate the possibility of using White Zircon
Borax Frit (WZBF) to develop matte and opaque stable glazes that are suitable
with local Omani pottery clay bodies. In the end of this experimental
research, the purpose of this project is to develop applicable glazing recipes
to be used for painting pots made by Omani clays.