How to Fix the 10 Most Common Glazing Mistakes Made by Beginners? — Spinning Pots

What makes a pottery work look complete and good? It’s glazing. After you make a beautiful pottery work, you need to finish it off by following the proper steps and techniques of glazing. Glazing not only finishes your work to look complete but also leaves a coating on your pot to make it long-lasting, waterproof, and food-safe. Adding colors through glazing turns your ordinary pottery item into an aesthetic piece.

Glazing makes your pottery possess the look and beauty the way you want it to be by bringing life to it, and thereby, cherishing your inner creativity. To give your work that unique look, which makes it different from any other work, glazing plays the most crucial role.

Just the way glazing makes your pottery work look the most beautiful, in the same way, glazing done in the wrong way can ruin your entire pottery work. There is not a single way or method of glazing; rather, the glazing world is blessed with plenty of glazing techniques. Sometimes potters make glazing mistakes or follow flawed techniques to feed their aesthetic appetite and create something new. Well, as a beginner, you need to learn the basics of glazing to know what to do and what not to do. After gaining experience, you’ll learn to do experiments.