How To Glaze And Fire A Ceramic Christmas Tree

Most of the classic christmas tree ceramic items found on ebay are vintage.

How to glaze and fire a ceramic christmas tree.

Christmas tree green is a vivid dramatic pine green glaze that is glossy and breaks transparent where thin and pools very deep green where thicker. F 47 christmas tree green amaco f series low fire glazes. This method looks great. The bulbs are lighted by placing a night light type bulb inside the hole in the bottom of tree and turning it on.

Older examples may be more fragile. Details to look for when choosing a used ceramic christmas. This video features our large christmas tree 17 5145 and our glass green specialty glaze 9060. They are semi opaque and fire with a high gloss.

Amaco f series glazes are fritted leadless compositions. Then the piece must be aligned on a stilt and fired yet again for about 3 hours this time but with the same cool down period. Some can be traced to the mid 20th century while others were made in the 1970s. The mother of pearl glaze must be applied to a already glazed and fired with a clear glaze that produces a white ceramic christmas tree or other piece.

Check out this video for an easy and super simple how to way to paint our christmas trees. This glaze is not food safe and should not be applied to surfaces intended for serving food or drink. Please note this process is not for high fire use. However for those wishing to paint ceramic bisque as ornamental items only one can use acrylic paints and then either use the brush on glaze or the spray glaze available on this site.

More recent pieces tend to be creative in the use of lighting with some functioning as a lamp. Have the studio fire the glazed tree.