Bisque firing and glazing

Bisque firing and glazing

The mug is bisque fired at 950 C.
When the mugs have cooled, they are lacquered before glazing. This allows us to dip them all the way into the glaze where after we dry of the remainder of the glaze from the base of the mug.
Firstly, the mugs are glazed inside with a clear glaze afterwards they are carefully dipped into our trademark brown granite glaze.

The base is carefully cleaned before the mug is ready for the second and last firing circle.
Both glaze and clay are made of local granite and when fired to top temperatures at 1270 C the glaze and clay becomes like stone again, hence the name stoneware.
The mugs are left to cool down slowly over two days before they can be staked onto the shop shelves.