Longton

GLOST is a glaze library and test kiln in Longton, one of the six towns that joined to make Stoke-on-Trent in 1910. We mix and fire other people's recipes, keep every result, and teach the chemistry on Thursday evenings.

Test tile 011, wood ash glaze, green rivulets running over a speckled stoneware tile — Tile 011, wood ash, from a Friday firing.

Visit

Unit 2, Bourne's Yard
Longton, Stoke-on-Trent
Thursday 4 to 8 pmBring tiles, collect tests, ask questions
Saturday 10 am to 1 pm

Classes

Reading the Stull chart3 Thursdays · 6 to 8 pm · £60
Line blends2 Thursdays · 6 to 8 pm · £40
Weighing and sieving1 Saturday morning · £25

Contact

[email protected]
Post tiles to the yard, marked GLOST TESTS
Send a recipe

GlostIn the Potteries the glaze firing is the glost firing, and the bottle ovens that did it were glost ovens.

<50Bottle ovens still standing in Stoke-on-Trent. Several are a few streets away at the Gladstone Pottery Museum.

1886Hermann Seger published the first formulas for pyrometric cones, the witness cones we still fire beside every test.

2Kilns: a gas kiln for reduction and an electric kiln for oxidation.