Mason | 6001
Alpine Rose Mason Stain
Mason Stain 6001 Alpine Rose is a chrome tin pink, a pigment made by firing chromium into a calcium tin silicate. It gives a clean mid pink with a cool cast in a glossy, calcium rich glaze fired in oxidation.
$49.95 / 125 g Bag
$49.95
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Alpine Rose is a single calcined pigment and not a blend of stains, so the colour is clean. The glaze needs to be glossy, high in calcium (Mason gives 6.7 to 8.4 percent calcium oxide), free of zinc and low in magnesia and boron, and it needs an oxidising firing. The calcium matters because it is part of the pigment chemistry itself, and a glaze short of calcium breaks the colour down and fires pale. In that base it fires a mid pink with a cool cast, and adding more deepens the pink without shifting the hue, so a shade is reached by the amount alone. Mason sets the ceiling below cone 10.
- A cool mid pink from chromium fired into a calcium tin silicate
- Deepens with a larger addition without shifting hue
- Needs a glossy glaze with 6.7 to 8.4 percent calcium oxide and no zinc
- Low magnesia and boron, and an oxidising firing
- Ceiling below cone 10
- A fired and milled pigment, so it disperses into a glaze without grinding
