What is crazed glass

Hi there! Sign in Create an account Buy images Sell images. Share Alamy images with your team and customers. Current lightbox. Live chat. Crazed Glass Stock Photos and Images Narrow your search:. Cut Outs. Page 1 of 3. Next page. Recent searches:. Create a new lightbox Save. Create a lightbox Your Lightboxes will appear here when you have created some. Save to lightbox. Possible metaphor for mental illness, shattered dreams, broken promises, abstract connections, the mind. Close up of a shattered safety glass window, broken and crazed into many pieces.

Craze lines can also harbor bacteria or germs. Therefore, dinnerware pottery should be uncrazed ware. The effect in the top picture was accomplished by melting and fusing glass on the pot.

For more about firing glass with pottery, visit Combining Glass with Pottery. How to remove stains from old crackled or crazed vessel? The glaze surface has cracks that can possibly hold substances food, dust, dirt in it and produce bacteria. Therefore it is not food safe! See article about food safety with crazed or crackled glazes. Although crazing is considered a glaze defect, it can also be corrected by adjusting the clay body. A glaze adjustment might not be possible if it is under so much tension that there is no room in the recipe for correction.

The goal should be to have both glaze and body shrink at a compatible rate, with the glaze coming under slight compression. Before starting, let's consider the following points:. If you have tried several corrections with no success and the result you want is fairly common i. If the glaze is unique and cannot be changed, try another clay body perhaps a simple Cone white clay made from 50 parts ball clay, 50 parts talc and 3 parts whiting; the whiting helps keep a lot of glazes from crazing.

With these four points in mind, you are now ready to take a corrective step, or a combination of steps to solve glaze crazing. Crazing can often be eliminated simply by applying a thinner glaze coat. With some glazes, a thinner coat is not an option, but often a slight decrease in glaze thickness will stop crazing.