Hibiscus Matte Shino

SH-52

🟪 Purple Level

Hibiscus Matte Shino is a satin brush-on glaze from Amaco's Shinos line, fired cone 5 to cone 6.

SatinOpaqueCone 5/6
Available at The Clay HoleYes
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Find it on the glazes shelves Shelf 3, Row 8Tile #6 on the Shinos pot
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The quick version of Hibiscus Matte Shino

TypeBrush-on glaze
FinishSatin
OpacityOpaque
Shows textureNot especially
Glaze fire toCone 5/6
Bisque toCone 04

What this glaze does

A matte shino that yields varied shades of salmon, orange, and brown depending on how thickly it goes on. That is Amaco's description and it is the important part: thickness is what decides which of those shades you get. Thin favors the warm rust base, thick favors the opaque color.

Clays that suit Hibiscus Matte Shino

Amaco formulates this line for stoneware and porcelain and says it suits red or white clay, so every body on our shelf is in range.

Rated forStoneware and porcelain at cone 5 and cone 6, red clay or white.
How thickness readsAmaco is specific that a thin coat favors the warm rust base and a thick coat favors the opaque color. The clay matters less here than your brushing does.
Buff and dark bodies52 Buff, Speckled Buff and Berlin Gray lean into the high-iron look this line is imitating.
Light bodies#16 Porcelain, B-Mix and Half & Half give the cleanest read of the color itself.
On textureAmaco calls the line good on textured and smooth bodies alike, which is unusual and worth using.
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Applying this glaze to your work

Thickness is the control here. Amaco says a thin application favors the warm rust base and a thick application favors the opaque color. Decide which pot you want before you start.

Across the Shinos line

Amaco rates the line for cone 5 and cone 6 over cone 04 bisque. Thickness is doing most of the work here.

Thin gives you the rust base showing through, thick gives you the opaque color. Neither is wrong, but they are different pots, so decide which one you want before you start brushing.

Layering

Fully mixable with the rest of the Shino line, so a gloss and a matte of the same color can be blended anywhere between the two surfaces. Amaco also recommends layering Shinos with the Potter's Choice line, which we carry in full.

Before you commit a pot

These are 100 percent mixable with each other, so a gloss and a matte of the same color can be blended to land anywhere between the two surfaces.

Amaco also recommends layering Shinos with the Potter's Choice line, which we carry in full.

From The Clay Hole University

More info about Hibiscus Matte Shino 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 Hibiscus Matte Shino

Amaco rates the Shino line for cone 5 and cone 6, published as 2167F and 2232F on a medium speed firing, over bisque fired to cone 04.

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 Hibiscus Matte Shino

Why did mine come out rust colored instead of the color on the jar?

The coat was thin. Amaco says a thin application favors the warm rust base underneath.

Why is my surface flatter than expected?

Check whether you used the matte. Every Shino color exists as both a gloss and a matte.

Can I mix two Shinos together?

Yes. Amaco describes the line as 100 percent mixable.

Food and function

Amaco rates the Shino line food safe at cone 5. Anyone producing tableware for sale should test their own finished ware on their own clay and schedule.

Across the Shinos line

Amaco rates the Shino line food safe at cone 5.

As with any glaze, anyone producing tableware for sale should test their own finished ware on their own clay and firing schedule.

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

Our test tile pots

Every glaze family on our shelves has its own test tile pot, and it is the fastest way to decide what to put on a piece. It is a fired pot wearing the whole family, one numbered tile per glaze, on a surface built to show you what that glaze actually does rather than just what color it is.

  1. 1Find the pot The brand and family name are written on the rim. This glaze lives on the Amaco Shinos pot.
  2. 2Find the tile This one is tile #6. The numbers match the ones in the Glaze Bible.
  3. 3Read it properly Look at what the glaze does across all four textures, not just what color it is.

What to look at on the tile

Broad vertical textureA broad open surface. Shows the color at full strength, and whether the glaze travels down it.
Shallow textureA shallow swirl stamp. Shows whether light carving still reads once the glaze is on, or fills in and vanishes.
Deep textureCut lines. A deeply rough texture stripe. Shows where the glaze pools, how it breaks, and how dark it goes in the recesses.
Wipe-away textureGlaze wiped back to bare clay. Shows what the edge does where the coat runs thin. Find this wiped away on the tile's number.
One trick worth knowing

Some glazes tell you loudly that they run. Others hide it. Look at how the brushed lines fired: crisp edges mean a stable glaze, and edges that went soft and fluid mean it moved, and it will move on your pot too.

About the Amaco Shinos Family

Amaco built the Shino line to give an electric kiln the heavy iron reduction look of a wood or gas firing. Amaco points to the earthiness of tea ceremony bowls as the influence.

The line comes in six colors, each in a gloss and a matte, and all twelve are fully mixable with each other.

Twelve glazes, six colors doubled into gloss and matte. Amaco rates the line for cone 5 and cone 6 over cone 04 bisque, on stoneware or porcelain, red clay or white. The colors are opaque and iron rich, and thickness decides which way they read. Amaco is direct about it: a thin coat favors the warm rust base underneath, a thick coat favors the color itself.

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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 Glaze Bible 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.

How membership levels work Back to the Glaze Bible
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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