Stroke & Coat Speckled

20 glazes / Mayco

Twenty Stroke & Coat colors with contrasting specks suspended in them. Same glaze, same rules, one extra thing going on.

Mayco build these on their existing Stroke & Coat colors, so a speckled color behaves exactly like its plain counterpart on our other shelf.

Cone 06/6Bisque to Cone 04

Stroke & Coat Speckled by the numbers

20glazes on our shelves
20at Purple Level

Every Stroke & Coat Speckled glaze we have in house

Hover any tile to see a pot fired in it, or tap once on a phone.

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20 to choose from

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

MaycoStroke & Coat Speckled

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A light sky blue carrying fine dark specks. The speck density reads best over a mid tone like this, where the contrast is obvious without fighting the color.

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

MaycoStroke & Coat Speckled

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A soft off-white with tan and dark specks scattered through it. The lightest base in the speckled set, and the one where the specks do the most work.

Grapel glaze test tileA pot fired in Grapel
Grapel

MaycoStroke & Coat Speckled

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A deep magenta plum with dark specks. Mayco make Grapel with chrome-tin pigments and warn it can haze under a zinc-bearing clear glaze.

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

MaycoStroke & Coat Speckled

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A very dark navy that reads black at a glance. The specks are only visible when the light catches them, which is the trade you make with the dark bases.

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

MaycoStroke & Coat Speckled

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A dusty rose pink with specks. Mayco flag this one as more translucent than the rest of the line, so it can need more than three coats to go fully opaque.

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

MaycoStroke & Coat Speckled

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A dark teal green with specks visible mainly where the glaze thins. Our tile for this one is chipped at the top corner, so the photo shows the damage.

Tuxedo glaze test tileA pot fired in Tuxedo
Tuxedo

MaycoStroke & Coat Speckled

🟪 Purple Level

No Tile

A gloss black carrying specks you only see at an angle. The most subtle speck effect in the set for the same reason Moody Blue is.

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

How the Stroke & Coat Speckled line works

The specks are in the glaze, not on the clay. That means coat count controls how many of them land: one thin coat scatters a few, three coats gives the density you see on these tiles.

Contrast does the rest. On the pale bases the specks read hard, and on Tuxedo and Moody Blue you have to catch the light to see them at all.

Coats

Apply to cone 04 bisque, greenware or wet clay. One coat is translucent, two to three is opaque. It fires glossy on its own, so no clear is needed.

Layering

These do not move or blend into a neighboring color, so hard edges hold. Intermixable with the rest of Stroke & Coat if you want to mix your own shade.

Food and safety

Mayco list Stroke & Coat as food safe and dinnerware safe when used as directed. Test your own finished work if you sell functional ware.

Clays that suit Stroke & Coat Speckled

Works on any of our bodies. On a speckled clay body you get two speck patterns at once, which can read as a mess or as depth depending on the color.

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

The Stroke & Coat Speckled 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.

Download the Glaze Bible PDF