Recipes

Here you can find recipes for glazes, slips, clay bodies, and much more at a large range of firing temperatures. Not all of the recipes have been confirmed as correct so please use at your own risk.

For each temperature range the clay recipes are listed in order by use: Throwing, Handbuilding, Casting, Flameware

Clay Bodies

Low Fire Recipes

Mid Fire Recipes

High Fire Recipes

Class Clays Archive

Micro Brew Claybodies

Current Class Clays

Raw Mats Cookbooks

These Documents contain recipes and processes that have been developed by the undergraduate students in the Raw Materials class in the NYSCC at Alfred.

Grinding Room on Glazy

The Grinding Room currently has two Glazy.org accounts.

Find the Cushing glazes on the alfredgrindingroom account.
Find a library of clay bodies created by students of the Raw Materials class on the grindingroom account.

Sources:

Val Cushing's Handbook, A special thank you to Val Cushing for permission to reprint formulas from his seminal handbook. (Third edition)

Alfred Clay Bodies, A collection of recipes used over the past 10-15 years at Alfred.

Class Clays, Clays currently used in classes at Alfred

Cook Book, Experiments developed in the Raw Materials class at Alfred, taught by Carlo Sammarco