APPLYING GLAZE

to PRODUCT
There are a various ways of glazing:

► Dipping
► Spraying (spray-gun)
► Brushing/ Paint
► ‘Silk - screen printing’
► Waterfall method
 Dipping
► The most common method.
► The procedures are simply dipped or immersed into a
glaze slip , withdrawn and allowed to drain and dry.
► The dipping technique - depends on the
shape and size of the ware.
► The amount of glaze that is used depends
on the bodies, slip and rheological
properties and dipping times.
 Spraying

► slipglaze is dispersed into a fine particles which

are transferred to the ceramic body by either
pneumatic, mechanical and electrical forces.

► The required equipment is a “spray gun", a

container or feed mechanism, an impelling agent,
a hood/lid or booth properly designed under
suitable pressure.
► Spraying requires only small quantities of glaze.
►
- Air Spraying
- Automatic Spraying
- Mechanical Spraying
- Electrostatic Spraying
 Brushing / Painting

► Used for special effects, and for applying

glazes to places inaccessible by the spraying
technique
► Brush are used by skilled workers
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 ‘Silk-screening Printing’
► The silk screen process is used for
products/substrates which required precisely
positioned areas of glaze.
► The finely powdered dry glaze or frit is dispersed
in a medium to form a smooth paste / adhesive
(paste).
► By using a sharply- edge rubber squeegee this
paste is pressed through the open areas of a fine
mesh stretched on a frame.
► This mesh was made by silk, but now it is either
metal or polyester.
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 Waterfall Method

► Is the common techniques for glazing tiles that

require one surface to be glazed.
► A continuous feed of tiles carried on parallel tracks
of rubber belt passes under a curtain of fluid
glazed slip.
► The slip continuously circulates in the machine,
flowing from an reservoir in a controlled
curtain into a lower tank, from which it is pumped
through a filter into the upper tank.
► Thethickness of the glaze layer/coating are
depends on ;
- The speed of traverse through the waterfall
- The density of the glaze slip
- The porosity of the body