"I tried many slips Norm but I settled on a porcelain clay no additives I used it at a single cream sort of consistency, you need a slip with a bit of resistance in the slip otherwise the tea runs straight down the pot. Plus as you stated once the…"
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"Apply the mocha quickly after applying the slip to the pot, otherwise you don't get the dendrite branching.
I think this was important step many of us were missing. The key is in the wet slip."
"When I say tea I mean the tobacco infusion was called the “mocha tea”
Tony"
"Tony Remington, thanks so much for providing your original recipe
"A half ounce of light tobacco which I boiled in a half pint of water.
Once the tea was cold I added cobalt oxide to give the color."
You say the resulting solution is…"
"Hi I have just come across this article about ten years too late. I am the Tony Remington referred to in this article. I used to make mocha ware back in the 1980/90s I did a short piece for local TV showing me making and decorating mocha pot. During…"
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Yellow! Clay is KYM Dark Star, on bisqueware wash of copper carbonate and rutile. Glaze is Coyote Parakeet. White plate is Skim Milk white recipe from glazy.org by Uliana Bewilding.
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