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• Lustres types are an overglaze - meaning lustres are to be applied after your work has gone through a glaze firing

• Lustres can be finicky to apply and are quite expensive as they contain liquid precious metals

• Lustres are sensitive, and should be fired only with a single type of lustre in the firing (i.e gold 10% only) to lessen the chance of other off gases that may alter the finish.

• Lustre fire will take place Dec 3 (will be finished in time for our market) - you must communicate with Jes via email by Nov 26 if you want to participate in this firing with the amount of pieces and sizes of those pieces.

• Lustres are extremely potent in smell therefore you cannot apply lustres in the studio. You will have to apply at home by an open window or under a fume hood with a respirator and let off gas or apply outside the studio with our patio table and let off gas completely (several hours) before bringing into the studio. Please plan accordingly when doing your work and have things ready, including properly off-gassed for the lustre fire (a good idea to have everything done 24hrs before the fire.). Absolutely no exceptions as this is for health and safety of our studio.

• As we know in ceramics, though following firing programs sometimes things don’t end up how you expect - lustres are no different

This isn’t to scare, but to inform so you can make the decision if you would like to participate in one of our upcoming lustre fires.

Below is the Sounding Stone lustres, click the Colorabia 10% Gold for more specific info on their lustre https://www.soundingstone.com/pages/search-results-page?q=lustres