earthenware

Yellowware or Yellow Ware Earthenware - what is it?

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Yellowware is a type or sub-group of Earthenware. The body is relatively hard earthenware body and runs from pale buff to yellow in color. Yellowware was most popular from 1840 to 1900. Typically a lead glaze was used and yellowware was decorated with sponge prints, spattered color, and / or bands. [...]

What is Faience Earthenware?

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Faience is an earthenware featuring a tin-enameled (stanniferous) glaze. The glaze produces an opaque white surface.
In the traditional manner of producing ceramic items, a clay vessel would first be fired to create the fired product - an unglazed fired product can be called biscuit or bisque. For Faience earthenware, the undecorated biscuit was [...]

Redware or Terra Cotta is a type of Earthenware

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Redware, also known as Terra Cotta, has a distinctly red body, hence its name. The clay or paste is rendered out of surface clays. The Redware body is softest of all the Earthenwares and fractures easily.

Redware is a variety of earthenware whose body of soft porous clay turns red, orange, or brown when fired due [...]

What is Earthenware dinnerware and its pros and cons, strengths and weaknesses?

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

What is Earthenware?
There are 2 basic definitions, depending on whom you go to for the information.
The history of ceramics would say:
Earthenware is a relatively soft, porous body that would not contain liquids without a glaze.
The ceramic and dinnerware industry would say:
Earthenware is any pottery body which, when fired, has a porosity of more than five [...]

What is dinnerware made of ? - or Dinnerware 101

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Almost all quality dinnerware produced today is made from either glass or ceramic coated with a glass like glaze.
Ceramic dinnerware (and ceramics in general) is usually divided into three common grades, and then subdivided within each grade.
The common grades of ceramic used for modern dinnerware and tableware are:

Earthenware

Stoneware

Porcelain

Each grade of ceramic is distinguished [...]

What kinds of ceramics are used to make dinnerware or Ceramics 101

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

First, lets start with - What is ceramics?

A basic definition of Ceramic would be:
Ceramic - any of various hard material made by firing a non-metallic mineral, as clay.
Ceramics are dinnerware or objects that are made from baked clay. The production of ceramics involve mixing powdered clay, a tempering medium, and water to create a [...]