Usage
Pehatine 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 can be used on both fired and unfired ware.
It is suitable for all temperatures – earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain.
Working with Pehatine 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)
The fluidity of the created brush glaze may vary, due to the different features of the used powder.
Powder till brush glaze
Ratio brush glaze and prepared Pehatine is 1:1
Colour pigments /oxides
Ratio with prepared Pehatine 1:1
Can be further diluted with water if desiered.
Ceramic paint
Ratio in units: 2 glaze, 1 pigment, 5 prepared Pehatine.
Prepared Pehatine means 1 part Pehatine to 2 parts water.
Coloured slip, consisting of kaolin, pigment /oxide
Ratio with prepared Pehatine 1:1
Can be further diluted with water.
Coloured 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 in glaze
Add prepared Pehatine to the dry glaze, let it rest for a while. Stir the glaze and add until the desired thisckness.
Mounting slip
Clay with Pehatine, stir and mount. Strong and adhesive.
Powder made with Pehatine versus powder glaze made with only water.
The difference in setting of the sedimentation of the prepared powder after two hours.
Pehatine 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)
Want to know more? Download the safety data sheet.