Ceramic Glazing

A glazer holds a bisque-fired bowl by the foot ring, dips it into a bucket of glaze for a count of two or three, and lifts it out in one smooth arc so the coat runs even and nothing drips onto the base. The timing comes from feel. The glaze looks like gray mud and gives no hint of the color it will become in the kiln, so the worker judges thickness by how the surface dulls as it dries, not by what they see.

The job alternates between dipping, pouring, and spraying, with wax resist brushed on the foot before any of it starts. Between pieces the worker stirs the bucket to keep the glaze from settling, checks specific gravity with a hydrometer or a weighed cup, and wipes the foot ring clean with a damp sponge so it will not fuse to the kiln shelf. Hands get coated. Pieces get set on a drying rack in a particular order that keeps wet rims from touching.

Head-mounted cameras pick up the angle of the wrist on the lift and the moment the worker decides a coat is thick enough. Fixed cameras around the glaze bench give a second view of the full body motion and the rack layout. Collection runs across full shifts in working studios and factories, so the footage includes cleanup, bucket changes, and the pieces that get wiped off and redone.

Episode segmentation diagramONE EPISODE01Wipe02Dip03Drain04Touch up05RackEACH STEP: LANGUAGE LABEL · OUTCOME TAG · OPTIONAL HAND / OBJECT TRACKS
A typical ceramic glazing episode, cut into the steps your labels attach to.

Each shift is cut into episodes, one piece or one batch per episode, and each episode is broken into steps with plain-language labels such as waxing the foot, dipping, draining, and wiping. Success and failure tags mark pieces that were accepted versus ones sent back for drips, bare spots, or crawling. Hand, bucket, and piece tracking can be added if your pipeline needs it, and delivery lands in your schema in your storage.

Every glazer on camera has consented and is paid for the session, and the footage is cleared for commercial model training. Ask for a sample and it will be in your inbox within a business day.