Usage

Pehatine 209 is long-lasting, safe, and easy to use for:

Glazes, engobes/clay slips, pigments, and oxides
Rehydrating existing, dried glazes
Even with multiple, if dry, layers.

Versatile in Application

Pehatine 209 can be used on both fired and unfired ware.
It is suitable for all temperatures – earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain.

Working with Pehatine 209 is easy.

Advice: Mix one part Pehatine with two parts water. Stir this into the glaze powder. The mixture can then be applied with both a wide brush and a fine brush on earthenware, clay, or porcelain.

Basic Recipe

1 kg powder + 0.5 l Pehatine + 1 l water = result

Making Pehatine for other recipes:
0.5 l Pehatine + 1 l water (= prepared Pehatine)

Brush Glaze

Ratio brush glaze and prepared Pehatine is 1:1
Prepared Pehatine means 1 part Pehatine to 2 parts water.

Color Pigments/Oxides

Ratio with prepared Pehatine 1:1
Can be further diluted with water.

Ceramic Paint

Ratio in units: 2 glaze, 1 pigment, 5 prepared Pehatine.
Prepared Pehatine means 1 part Pehatine to 2 parts water.

Colored Slurry, consisting of kaolin, pigment/oxide

Ratio with prepared Pehatine 1:1
Can be further diluted with water.

Colored Clay

Ratio in units: 2 pigment, 3 kaolin, 2 clay powder half fat, 2 glaze, pinch of talc and bentonite, 2 prepared Pehatine.
Prepared Pehatine means 1 part Pehatine to 2 parts water.

Ball of (100 grams) clay, knead until uniform mass, colored clay.

Dried Glaze

Add prepared Pehatine.
Prepared Pehatine means 1 part Pehatine to 2 parts water.

Mounting Slurry

Clay with Pehatine, stir and mount. Strong and adhesive.

Powder made with Pehatine versus powder made with only water.
The difference in sedimentation of the prepared powder after 2 hours.

Warning Pehatine 209 contains 0.05% preventol. This is a preservative used by every glaze manufacturer in Europe in many prepared glazes. Due to changes in European legislation, we are required to display this symbol from July 1, 2017. (it may cause a sensitive reaction on the skin) (no known cases)

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