More about the Designs...
Feather/Seaweed is an old pattern, developed
in England and Scotland in the 1600s. A tabacco tea is made with colored oxides added; cobalt for blue, chrome for green,
and applied with a brush onto a band of wet white or colored slip.
After firing, it is covered with a clear lead-free glaze.
Rockingham is a glaze. Clear glaze
is colored with manganese oxide and sponged onto the pot.
Worms, Scrolls and Bands are applied with
slip trailers to a leather hard pot before its first firing. After firing it is covered with a clear lead-free
glaze.
Mocha Ware is a name loosely given to
the variety of patterns above and others on yellow clays as well as red clays and white clays.
