CHESTNUT This glaze is quite stiff and stone like. It is good for trees with pink flowers or white flowers. It harmonises well with trident maple, field maple and most deciduous trees with orange/yellow tones in the leaf in spring or autumn. It is soft and even
GREY/GREEN This glaze has a greenish satiny surface. It is suitable for mountain maple, where it enhances the colour of young green wood and the older silvery bark, and offsets the reddish leaves in spring and autumn. The glaze is very variable and changes dramatically with slight variations in thickness and firing temperature. It will often show greyish patches, which sometimes are flushed with pink. Occasionally a pot will flush a beautiful peachy pink all over, but this is rare and uncontrollable. It is a very useful glaze and goes well with many tree types and styles because of its sophisticated colour.
CRACKLE WHITE This glaze is fairly dry and stone like. The glaze colour is affected by what else is in the kiln with it, and slight variations in temperature. The white is sometimes delicately tinged with warm grey, pink or buff., but there is often a fine tracery of grey crackle lines. A good choice where a light coloured but subtle glaze is needed.
KANTON This glaze is basically a rich dark blue that breaks to a graphite/black where thick. This break up stops the blue being too strong. The glaze appears quite thin and shows off the lines of the pot well. The surface is smooth and satin like. The colour works well with many tree species. It is very good on almost any pot and is particularly good on trays, suibans and accent pots. It shows off white and yellow flowers well.
BLUE GREY This glaze is applied quite thickly and has a dryish stone like appearance. It will break slightly on hard edge corners to a grey/brown that enhances the pot shape. It works well with most deciduous species and is good with many fruiting and flowering bonsai. It is particularly good with pink, yellow and white flowers. It works well on small and large pots.
STORMY BLUE GREY This glaze is a darker version of Pale Blue/Grey. Again it tends to be dryish and stone like. The colour is very good with Japanese beech, red varieties of maple, Chinese elm and most flowers. It is especially good for trays with deciduous forests. It works well on all sizes and shapes of pots.
TURQUOISE This is a variation of the Cloudy Blue/Green glaze where it is applied more thickly. The resulting colour is a quite intense turquoise blue. Again suitable for fruiting and flowering bonsai. But because of its intensity needs careful handling. The tree needs to be of a strong design, hence it is also very good on small and accent pots.
IMPERIALYELLOW This is a glaze that works well with pots under 30cm in length and is good on rectangular pots and pots with strong edges. Smaller trees often benefit from strongly shaped and strongly coloured pots. This glaze works well with trees with red flowers or white flowers or trees with blackish bark like Prunus spinosa [Blackthorn]. The glaze itself is satiny and slightly transparent and needs to be used quite thickly.
SHINO WHITE This glaze is a strong shiny white very similar in appearance to the Japanese ‘Shino’ glaze. The surface is slightly textured, as the glaze needs to be quite thick. However the glaze is not ‘dead’ like many shiny white glazes. It is probably best on smaller more angular pots. It is very good for accent plantings and where a cool ‘underlining’ is used for a summer planting.
PALE GREEN This is a smooth glaze that breaks brownish on edges. A fresh colour that suits delicate trees.
WARMGREY A soft grey, satin like surface. A nice restrained colour. Good to show off white/pink flowers.