Feature

●Penguin Pottery Stains are a great way to add color to your clay, clay slip, glazes, and underglazes!
●Don’t see a color you like? Our stains can be combined to create a huge range of colors!
●Penguin Pottery Stains reliably produce the same results, every time.
●Some Penguin Pottery Stains have temperature limits, but unless otherwise noted can be fired at all temperatures (low fire, mid fire, high fire.)
●Some glazes must have a specific percentage of either Calcium Oxide or Calcium Carbonate for correct color development. See below for more information.
●Used as a body stain for porcelain at high temperatures. Results differ according to certain factors: composition of body, firing temperature, cycle, atmosphere, and cooling time.
●When used as a body stain we recommend starting with one part stain to ten parts glaze, and increasing as needed.
●When used in glaze we recommend anywhere from two to fifteen percent stain. Maximum firing temperature: 2300℉ or 1260℃.

[Vivid Blue]




[Golden Brown]




[Peacock Green Stain]




[Tangerine]




[Royal Blue]




[Black]




[Coral Red]




[Robin Blue]




[Teal Blue]




[Willow Blue]




[Shell Pink]




[Canary Yellow]





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What Are Ceramic Stains?

Stains are fired blends of metal and ceramic oxides that have been reground into a fine powder. They are most popular at lower temperatures where colors tend to be brighter. However, most stains can also be used right up to the high fire range.

Benefits of Ceramic Stains:

  1. Stability: compared to coloring oxides, stains are chemically stable.
  2. Consistent Results: because of their stability, produce much more consistent and repeatable color than using raw oxide colors.
  3. Mixable: this is a key advantage of stains, the ability to target a specific color by mixing different stains to achieve the desired effect.

Stains can produce homogeneous color which can be less interesting than the variegated and speckled color effects that can be achieved with raw metal oxides like iron, cobalt, copper, etc. But it cannot be ignored that stains are far more consistent and reliable to use.

Finally, stains dont suspend well in water to create a paintable material, so it is necessary to mix them with a compatible and paintable glaze medium for doing brushwork.

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