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Every glaze and underglaze we’ve got, in one searchable list.
Search for a glaze, filter by membership level, and the best part... tap any glaze you want to use during class and we’ll create a list for you to copy or print.
Everything here comes straight out of The Glaze Bible.
Type a name, a family or a color — searching brown brings up every brown glaze we carry. Glazes with more than one color are listed under each of them, so a rust-and-teal glaze shows up under both. Or open Filters to narrow by level, color, sheen or family, picking as many as you like. Tap any glaze to start a list for today.
Green Level reaches 0 of them. Purple reaches 0. See what upgrading costs
Pick one level and you will see everything at it and below it. Every other row lets you pick as many as you like.
Sheen comes from the maker’s own description. 697 of the 715 have one on record so far — the rest are still to be checked.
Translucent lets the clay, and anything you carved or painted under it, show through. Semi-translucent softens what is underneath rather than hiding it. Opaque covers it completely. All 715 are accounted for.
240 of them keep carved, stamped and thrown texture crisp. The rest pool in it and soften it away, which is lovely on a smooth pot and a waste of good carving.
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What do our icons mean?
🄶 Green 🅈 Yellow 🄿 Purple 🄱 Black 🚫 Orange — order your own 🔥 raku workshop 💲 pay per use
Nothing matches that. Try a shorter word, or hit Reset. If a glaze is on our shelves and missing here, tell us and we will add it.
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Reading the list
What your membership level actually opens up.
Every glaze in the studio belongs to a level. You can use anything at your level or below it. Pick your level in the filter above and the list shows only what you can reach — plus Orange, which any level can have.
Green Level
20glazes. No underglaze yet.
Yellow Level
89glazes, including everything Green can use. Still no underglaze.
Purple Level
393glazes, plus 48 underglazes. Underglaze starts here.
Black Level
510glazes and all 105 underglazes. Just about everything in the building.
Orange Level
37Not a rung on the ladder. These are glazes we keep here but do not supply to members — any level is welcome to order their own.
Underglazes work the same way. Speedball Underglazes are Purple Level, and Amaco Velvet Underglazes are Black Level. If you are Green or Yellow, underglaze is not part of your level yet.
Brush-on glazes have no pay-to-play option outside your level. Dipping glazes are the one deliberate exception — any level can use any bucket by paying the per-piece up-charge.
- ♥ Studio favorite (95 of them)
- $ Carries a per-piece up-charge (47 of them)
- Membership level color
- # Test tile number (430 have one)
- ▩ Holds texture beautifully (240)
- ○◖● Translucent, semi-translucent, opaque
- M Metallic
- Orange Level — order your own (37)
- Disc. Discontinued — still usable, not being reordered (9)
- 🔥 Raku glaze (54), the same mark the Glaze Bible uses
If you are Green or Yellow
Purple Level opens 373 more glazes than Green does.
That is the whole reason the levels exist. Green reaches 20 glazes. Purple reaches 393, plus 48 underglazes that Green and Yellow cannot touch at any price, plus six of the seven dipping buckets included instead of paid for per piece.
Filter the list above to your level and then to Purple. The difference is not subtle, and you can move up in the middle of a month without waiting for a renewal date.
Yellow to Purple is a jump of 304 glazes. Nothing here expires and nothing is prorated away — you keep the level for the rest of the month you paid for.
The dollar badges
47 of these carry an up-charge.
Some glazes cost several times what the rest cost. Rather than drop them or push them up a level, we keep them on the shelf behind a small per-piece fee. The badge on the list tells you which ones, before you fall in love with one.
The amounts are not printed here on purpose — they move with what we pay for the glaze, and they come back down when our costs do. The current amount is always on the payment page.
It is per piece, not per session. Two up-charge glazes on one pot is two up-charges. One glaze on five pots is five.
An up-charge is not a way around your level. If a glaze sits above your membership level, no amount of money opens it — you have to move up a level. Up-charges only ever apply to glazes you can already reach. The one exception is the dipping buckets, which any level may use by paying per piece.
Pay a bottled glaze up-charge · Pay a dipping glaze up-charge
The buckets
Our own dipping glazes, and how long to hold them under.
These are made special for members of The Clay Hole. Dip time is not the same for every bucket, so read the row rather than counting to three out of habit. The lid is always the final word.
| Glaze | Dip time | Level | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Hole | 3 seconds | Purple Level | Rich, vibrant, mottled blue, glossier satin |
| Bronzealot | 1 seconds | Purple Level | Beautiful bronze effect — dip thinner for duller, satin |
| Clear as Mud | 3 seconds | Purple Level | Crystal-clear glossy glaze, good for things like sgraffito |
| Creamed Ice | 3 seconds | Purple Level | Creamy white with crystally tones of green and blue, satin |
| Dan's Secret Sauce | 3 seconds | Black Level | Epic vibrancy and effects. Can be stable or runny — always a surprise |
| Sunny Charcoal | 1 seconds | Purple Level | Dark, satin, classic finish |
| Tamjoda | 4 seconds | Purple Level | Pleasant, earthy, sage green, satin |
You have to be trained and passed off before you touch a bucket. No exceptions, at any level. Get trained and signed off here.
Everything else on the list
Raku, flux, and the ones we no longer stock.
Raku glazes (54)
Raku is not part of any membership level. It happens at optional paid workshops only, and the glaze is included in the workshop price. Nothing on this raku list is something you can pull off a shelf on a normal studio day.
Raku is fast, fiery and wildly unpredictable. Pieces come out of the kiln glowing hot and go straight into combustible material, which is where the metallic finishes, the crackle and the smoky blacks come from. The samples in the Glaze Bible are a rough idea, not a promise — the same glaze can come out metallic, smoky, bright, muted or nothing like the tile depending on the firing, the reduction, the weather and plain old raku magic.
Workshops get announced rather than scheduled far ahead, and they fill up fast.
Flux glazes (4)
Flux is not included with any membership at any level. You buy your own pint and it is yours to keep. It is also extremely unstable by design — that is the whole point of it, and it is why anything with flux on the outside has to go in the kiln on a glaze catcher.
Not being reordered (9)
These are still in play. We have plenty on the shelf, we are just not ordering more of them. When the last of one runs out it comes off the list, but until then you can use it like anything else — and they are counted in every total on this page.
Orange Level (37)
Orange is not a rung on the ladder. It is the shelf of glazes we do not supply to members — usually because they are hard to get hold of, there is almost none left, or they cost far more than a membership can carry.
You are welcome to order any of them for yourself. If it is here, you can use it. We just are not the ones buying it, and every level can do this, from Green up.
If one catches your eye, come ask about it first — a few of them want particular handling, and that is worth two minutes before you spend money on a pint.
Found something wrong?
We do our best to keep this current, but glazes arrive and glazes get discontinued. If something is on the shelf and missing here, or listed here and gone from the shelf, tell us and we will fix it.
Before you glaze
The list tells you what. The Glaze Bible shows you what it looks like.
The color dots here are sampled from our own fired test tiles, which makes them a decent guide and nothing more. A fired glaze is never one flat color, and it changes with the clay under it and the thickness you put on. For the real thing, use the Glaze Bible on the table by the mold room, or the test tiles themselves.
Every member has to watch the glazing video and sign the glazing agreement before using any glaze. No exceptions.
The counts at the top of this page are bigger than the list below, on purpose. 50 glazes are in the studio but are deliberately left off this list and always will be. The underglaze total includes 62 privately mixed colors that only exist here, so they have no brand or family to file them under.
Of what you can find below, 37 are Orange Level and are not supplied by the studio, 9 are not being reordered but are still on the shelf, and 4 are fluxes you buy separately. All of it is labelled rather than quietly left out.
Color dots and color filtering are read from our own fired test tiles in the Glaze Bible, plus whatever color the maker put in the name. A glaze that shows two or three colors is filed under all of them. It is a guide, not a promise — a fired glaze moves with your clay, your thickness and where it sits in the kiln.
Sheen is only shown where the maker states it. 697 of the 715 have one on record so far; the rest read Not listed yet and are still being checked one by one. Access by membership level is accurate as of the current Glaze Bible.