Stroke & Coat

60 glazes / Mayco

Sixty colors, and the line most members reach for first. Mayco call Stroke & Coat their Wonderglaze and it earns the name: it goes on wet clay, greenware or bisque, and it fires to a gloss with no clear glaze over the top.

It is heavily pigmented and it does not move. Two colors brushed up against each other stay where you put them, which is why it is the line for drawing, lettering and hard edges.

Cone 06/6Bisque to Cone 04

Stroke & Coat by the numbers

60glazes on our shelves
60at Purple Level

Every Stroke & Coat glaze we have in house

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60 to choose from

Aqu-ward glaze test tileA pot fired in Aqu-ward
Aqu-ward

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A pale sage green, soft enough to read as a neutral until you put it next to a true gray. Glossy and fully opaque on our tile, with the raised lettering lifting about a shade lighter.

Army Surplus glaze test tileA pot fired in Army Surplus
Army Surplus

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A deep olive khaki. On our tile the flat field goes almost brown-green and the raised letters lighten to a drab, dusty green, which is where the color is easiest to read.

Basketball glaze test tileA pot fired in Basketball
Basketball

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A bright pumpkin orange with no brown in it. Fully opaque and high gloss on our tile, and louder than either Orange Ya Happy or Tiger Tail beside it.

Blue Beard glaze test tileA pot fired in Blue Beard
Blue Beard

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

So dark it reads black across the flat field. Only the edges of the raised lettering give away that it is a very deep navy. Close to Moody Blue, and worth comparing the two tiles side by side before you commit.

Blue Dawn glaze test tileA pot fired in Blue Dawn
Blue Dawn

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A soft periwinkle, more lavender than sky. Opaque and glossy, and it lightens noticeably over the raised letters.

Blue Isle glaze test tileA pot fired in Blue Isle
Blue Isle

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A mid teal blue, even and glossy, sitting between Blue Yonder and Jaded on the shelf. Opaque at full coverage on our tile.

Blue Yonder glaze test tileA pot fired in Blue Yonder
Blue Yonder

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A clean light sky blue with no green in it. Opaque and glossy on our tile, and one of the easier blues to photograph accurately.

Blueberry Hill glaze test tileA pot fired in Blueberry Hill
Blueberry Hill

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A dark plum that holds its purple rather than sliding to brown. The relief breaks to a lighter wine, which is what keeps it from reading flat.

Café Ole glaze test tileA pot fired in Café Ole
Café Ole

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A milky mocha brown, closer to coffee with a lot of cream than to chocolate. Opaque and glossy on our tile, and quieter than Camel Back next to it.

Camel Back glaze test tileA pot fired in Camel Back
Camel Back

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A caramel brown with an amber cast. Glossy on our tile, with the raised lettering pulling lighter and warmer.

Cashew Later glaze test tileA pot fired in Cashew Later
Cashew Later

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A pale sand beige. Nearly a neutral, warm rather than gray, and it takes the raised lettering as a soft shadow rather than a contrast.

Cheeky Pink glaze test tileA pot fired in Cheeky Pink
Cheeky Pink

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A dusty mauve pink, muted rather than bright. Reads more grown-up than the name suggests. Mayco call this one Cheeky Pinky.

Cinnamon Stix glaze test tileA pot fired in Cinnamon Stix
Cinnamon Stix

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A deep brick red with brown underneath it. Glossy and opaque, and darker than Candy Apple Red or Hot Tamale in the same line.

Cotton Tail glaze test tileA pot fired in Cotton Tail
Cotton Tail

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A soft off-white with a faint gray in it. Not a bright white. On our tile the raised lettering is only visible as a shadow, which makes it a good background color.

Crackerjack Brown glaze test tileA pot fired in Crackerjack Brown
Crackerjack Brown

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A bright caramel brown with real orange in it. Warmer than Camel Back or Java Bean, and the relief lifts lighter and more amber.

Dandelion glaze test tileA pot fired in Dandelion
Dandelion

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A bright egg yolk yellow. Fully opaque and glossy on our tile, and it holds its strength right up to the edges of the relief.

Elephant Ears glaze test tileA pot fired in Elephant Ears
Elephant Ears

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A warm mid gray with a little taupe in it. Sits between Gray Hare and Tip Taupe, and is the least cool of the three.

Glow-Worm glaze test tileA pot fired in Glow-Worm
Glow-Worm

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

An acid chartreuse, the brightest yellow-green in this line. Glossy and opaque. Mayco spell it Glo-Worm.

Grape Jelly glaze test tileA pot fired in Grape Jelly
Grape Jelly

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A muted gray-purple rather than a saturated one. Softer than Grapel and Purple-licious, and closer to a dusty lilac at full coverage.

Grapel glaze test tileA pot fired in Grapel
Grapel

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A deep magenta purple with real saturation. Mayco note that Grapel is made with chrome-tin pigments and can haze under a zinc-bearing clear glaze, so keep clear off it unless you have tested that pairing.

Gray Hare glaze test tileA pot fired in Gray Hare
Gray Hare

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A plain mid gray with no warm cast. Opaque and glossy on our tile, and cooler than both Elephant Ears and Tip Taupe.

Green Thumb glaze test tileA pot fired in Green Thumb
Green Thumb

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A deep olive green. Darker and cooler than Toad-aly Green, with the relief lifting to a lighter moss.

Honey Dew glaze test tileA pot fired in Honey Dew
Honey Dew

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A pale yellow-green. Light enough to work as a background, and it shows an uneven coat more readily than the darker greens. Mayco call it Honeydew List.

Hot Tamale glaze test tileA pot fired in Hot Tamale
Hot Tamale

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A deep bright red with a slight blue undertone, which puts it a step cooler than Candy Apple Red.

Irish Luck glaze test tileA pot fired in Irish Luck
Irish Luck

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A very dark forest green that goes nearly black across the flat field. The raised lettering is where the green shows.

Jaded glaze test tileA pot fired in Jaded
Jaded

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A soft blue-green teal, lighter and grayer than Blue Isle. Opaque at full coverage.

Java Bean glaze test tileA pot fired in Java Bean
Java Bean

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A dark chocolate brown. On our tile the relief breaks to a lighter red-brown, which is the only place you see any warmth.

Just Froggy glaze test tileA pot fired in Just Froggy
Just Froggy

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A dark green with a yellow cast, closer to moss than to forest. Deeper than Leapin Lizard and less olive than Green Thumb.

Just Peachy glaze test tileA pot fired in Just Peachy
Just Peachy

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A pale peach. Light, warm, and soft enough that the raised lettering reads as a shadow rather than a line.

Leapin Lizard glaze test tileA pot fired in Leapin Lizard
Leapin Lizard

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A mid sage green, muted and slightly gray. Sits between Lettuce Alone and Just Froggy in depth. Mayco write it Leapin' Lizard.

Lettuce Alone glaze test tileA pot fired in Lettuce Alone
Lettuce Alone

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A very pale green, one of the lightest colors in this line. Thin spots show, so it wants the full three coats.

Melon-Choly glaze test tileA pot fired in Melon-Choly
Melon-Choly

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A dusty salmon pink with a lot of warmth in it. Softer than Cutie Pie Coral and less gray than Rosey Posey.

Moody Blue glaze test tileA pot fired in Moody Blue
Moody Blue

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A very dark navy that reads black at a glance. The blue only shows where the glaze thins over the raised lettering. Close enough to Blue Beard that the two tiles are worth comparing.

Orkid glaze test tileA pot fired in Orkid
Orkid

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A soft lilac with gray in it, quieter than any of the purples. Mayco note Orkid is made with chrome-tin pigments and can haze under a zinc-bearing clear glaze, so test before you put clear over it.

Pink-A-Boo glaze test tileA pot fired in Pink-A-Boo
Pink-A-Boo

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A pale blush pink. Light enough that coverage matters, and the raised lettering barely shows.

Poo Bear glaze test tileA pot fired in Poo Bear
Poo Bear

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A mustard gold. Warmer and duller than Sunkissed, and closer to a dark honey than to a yellow.

Purple-licious glaze test tileA pot fired in Purple-licious
Purple-licious

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A deep royal purple heading toward indigo. Dark across the flat field with the relief lifting to a clearer violet.

Rawhide glaze test tileA pot fired in Rawhide
Rawhide

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A soft wheat yellow. Muted rather than bright, and it works as a background where Dandelion would take over.

Teal Next Time glaze test tileA pot fired in Teal Next Time
Teal Next Time

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A very dark teal green that reads near black across the flat field, with the teal showing at the edges of the relief.

The Blues glaze test tileA pot fired in The Blues
The Blues

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A denim slate blue, softened with gray. Reads like worn indigo rather than a bright blue.

Tiger Tail glaze test tileA pot fired in Tiger Tail
Tiger Tail

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A burnt amber that sits between orange and brown. Glossy on our tile, with the relief pulling lighter and more golden.

Tuxedo glaze test tileA pot fired in Tuxedo
Tuxedo

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A true black at full coverage, high gloss on our tile. The relief holds a little sheen where the coat thins, which is the only variation you get.

Vanilla Dip glaze test tileA pot fired in Vanilla Dip
Vanilla Dip

MaycoStroke & Coat

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A creamy off-white with warmth in it. Softer than Cotton Tail and a good background for anything drawn on top.

Pots decorated with Mayco Stroke & Coat glazes at The Clay Hole pottery studio

How the Stroke & Coat line works

One coat is translucent. Two to three coats is opaque. That single fact decides most of what a Stroke & Coat pot looks like.

Mayco rate the line from cone 06 all the way to cone 6, with most colors holding to cone 10. Our glaze kilns run cone 5½, near the top of that window, so every tile on this page shows the color at our cone rather than at the cone 06 chip in Mayco's book.

Coats

Apply to cone 04 bisque, or straight onto greenware or wet clay. Let each coat dry before the next.

One coat reads translucent and shows the clay. Two to three coats gives flat opaque color. Mayco recommend two to three for full coverage.

It fires glossy on its own. You do not need clear over it.

Layering

Stroke & Coat colors do not move or blend into each other. You can butt two colors together or layer them without losing the edge, which is the whole reason the line exists.

The colors are intermixable, so you can mix your own shades from what is on the shelf.

Two of ours, Grapel and Orkid, are made with chrome-tin pigments. Mayco warn those can haze under a zinc-bearing clear glaze.

Food and safety

Mayco list Stroke & Coat as food safe and dinnerware safe when used as directed.

As with anything on our shelf, if you are selling functional ware, test your own finished work on your own clay.

Clays that suit Stroke & Coat

Works on any of our bodies. On a speckled body the specks read through, which some colors benefit from and some fight.

Mayco note that some colors go more transparent at mid-range, so a light color over a dark body will not cover the way the tile suggests.

Test tile pots lined up on the glaze shelves at The Clay Hole

The Stroke & Coat test tile pot

This family does not have a test tile pot. The colors and results come out close enough to what the book shows that a pot would not tell you much more, so work from the printed Glaze Bible and the tile above.

About these images and what your pot will actually look like

We have done our best to represent every glaze here accurately, and you should still expect your pot to look different from what is on this screen.

Our glaze tile images are digitally created. They are built to show the character of a glaze, not to be a color match.

A screen is not a printout, a printout is not a test tile, and a test tile is not a finished pot. Each step in that chain shifts what a glaze looks like, sometimes a lot.

On top of that, the pottery itself changes the result: the clay body, how thick the glaze went on, whether it was brushed, dipped or sprayed, what was layered under or over it, where the piece sat in the kiln, how hot that spot ran, how fast it cooled, what was fired next to it, and how much texture the surface had. Two pots glazed from the same jar on the same day can come out different.

Treat every image here as a starting point, and treat a test tile fired on your own clay as the real answer.

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