Verified course · human-reviewed June 2026Intermediate English
Glazes from the Family Notebook
Forty years of Alentejo glaze recipes — digitised, tested, and explained so you can mix, layer and fire them at home.
What you'll learn
- Read a glaze recipe like a chemist, not a gambler
- Mix safely — respirator on, silica respected
- My grandmother's ash glaze, the one that breaks amber
- Layer glazes without crawling, pinholes or tears
- Fire schedules for cone 6 electric and cone 10 reduction
The practice brief
Three Tiles, One Recipe
Mix one notebook recipe and fire it at three thicknesses on test tiles. Post the tiles with your firing log — reading the difference is the entire skill.
52 student submissions — completion means posting yours.
Curriculum
11 lessons · 3h 40m- Forty years in one drawer — what we're working fromPreview10m
- Units, batches, and converting old recipes14m
- Materials: what to buy, what to substitute13m
The review, in the open
Every course is scored 0–5 against a published rubric by a working maker before it can be sold. This one was reviewed in June 2026, and re-audited since.
5/5
Accuracy
4/5
Completeness
4/5
Production
5/5
Structure
5/5
Honesty