From Ceramic Materials Workshop
Custom Ceramic Glazes, Made to Order
You already know the color you want. Ware builds the glaze around it — tuned to your cone, your clay body, and your firing, then mixed and tested before it ships.
Start with the color, not the catalog
Most glazing starts with a catalog and a compromise — the closest thing on the shelf to what you pictured. Ware starts with the color itself.
Every color it shows you is a real glaze CMW has fired and photographed. No renders, no “results may vary.” What you pick is what comes out of the kiln — browse every fired tile.
“The color was a perfect match for Wedgwood Blue Jasperware. Glaze fired to a smooth gloss with no imperfections.”
How it works
Design it
Pick a color and dial in the rest: how hot you fire, how glossy you want it, how it breaks over texture. Or skip the dials and browse a wall of fired tiles until one stops you.
Refine it
Want it a touch warmer? More depth where it pools? Nudge it and the glaze is re-tuned behind the scenes. If the batch you get isn’t right, CMW reformulates and remakes it.
Reorder it
Every glaze you design is kept in My Glazes. Reorder the exact same glaze six months later and it’s the exact same glaze — no re-deriving a color you already loved.
What you can order today
- Cone 4–8
- Oxidation
- Glossy
- Dry or wet
- Ships in 5–7 days
Matte and satin finishes, more firing temperatures, and underglazes are in progress.
Decades of glaze chemistry, minus the chemistry
CMW has spent years teaching potters how glazes actually work — in the studio, the lab, the classroom, and in ceramic manufacturing. Ware is that knowledge packaged so you don’t have to do the chemistry yourself.
Made with Ware
Potters are already firing Ware glazes on their own work — matching a color they could not buy, or building a palette across a whole set.
