Add glass shards to bisque ware or glazed work to create this beautiful effect. Place shards in an even, thin layer. Glaze can even be added over the glass for a nice surface texture and color.
To smash recycled bottles:
Materials:
-Hammer
-Gloves
-Goggles
-Area with a hard surface
-Newspaper
-Cloth
-Bags
- Lay down newspaper. Warning, this can get messy.
- Place bottles in 2-3 bags
- Wrap in cloth
- Hit with hammer until desired shard size
The glass can be fired onto the clay at various temperatures creating different effects.
cone 6 works very well for a nice smooth surface. Cone 5 looks really nice as well. Cone 10 is my favorite.
For these test tiles I used green beer bottles for the glass and did not add any glaze. Fired to cone 6 and held at highest temp for 15 minutes.
This unglazed slab was in the same cone 6 firing as the previous test. This glass mixture consist mostly of clear shards with smaller green, blue and brown pieces.
Glass can also be added to wet clay and fired in bisque but the glass will boil up and drip. This is a picture of glass in wet clay and fired once in a bisque cone 08. This method is great for sculptural work.
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