Cotton Tail

SP-216

🟪 Purple Level

Cotton Tail is a glossy brush-on glaze from Mayco's Stroke & Coat Speckled line, fired cone 06 to cone 6.

GlossyOpaqueCone 06/6
Available at The Clay HoleYes
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The quick version of Cotton Tail

TypeBrush-on glaze
FinishGlossy
OpacityOpaque
Shows textureNot especially
Glaze fire toCone 06/6
Bisque toCone 04

What this glaze does

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.

Clays that suit Cotton Tail

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.

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Applying this glaze to your work

One coat is translucent, two to three gives solid color. Fires glossy with no clear over the top. Let each coat dry before the next.

Across the Stroke & Coat Speckled line

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

Speckled colors behave like the rest of Stroke & Coat: they do not move or blend into a neighboring color, and they are intermixable across the line.

Before you commit a pot

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.

From The Clay Hole University

More info about Cotton Tail below, but first... Everything we teach about glazing, written down and taught properly. These are the glaze lessons, and they are a small corner of a library that runs from centering your first pot to selling your work.

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Firing Cotton Tail

Mayco rates Stroke & Coat from cone 06 to cone 6, with most colors holding to cone 10. Our glaze kilns run cone 5½, so the tile here shows the color at our cone.

If you are a member here

None of this is yours to manage. We handle everything on the kiln side, and every glaze on our shelves can be fired safely in our studio.

Common problems with Cotton Tail

Where did my specks go?

Coats. The specks sit in the glaze, so a single thin coat scatters far fewer of them than three.

Do I need clear over it?

No. It fires glossy on its own.

Food and function

Mayco lists Stroke & Coat as food safe and dinnerware safe when used as directed. If you are selling functional ware, test your own finished work.

Across the Stroke & Coat Speckled line

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

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

Our test tile pots

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 the Mayco Stroke & Coat Speckled Family

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

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

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.

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More ways to pick a glaze

The Mega Glaze Tool Every glaze we carry, filtered by level, color, sheen and more. The Glaze Finder Type a name and see exactly where it sits on our wall. Clay Hole University Glazing lessons, from brushing to dipping to layering. Download the PDF The whole printed Bible, in one file.

Membership levels that may use this glaze: Purple & Black

Not sure whether this glaze suits what you are making, or how it works with our system here? Ask an instructor. That is what we are here for, and a two minute conversation at the shelf beats a fired pot you did not want.

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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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