Enamels, Engobes, Ceramic Colours and Decoration Techniques - B107005
Title: Glazury, engoby, keramické barvy a dekorační techniky
Guaranteed by: Department of Glass and Ceramics (107)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology
Actual: from 2019 to 2023
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:3
E-Credits: summer s.:3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type: Bachelor's
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Kloužková Alexandra doc. Ing. CSc.
Interchangeability : N107028
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Annotation -
Last update: Kloužková Alexandra doc. Ing. CSc. (23.02.2018)
The course provides information about surface treatment of ceramics, deals with various types (plastic decors, glaze, engobe, luster, metal compound, soldering ceramics, etc.), including raw materials, method of application and the heat treatment. Provides a description of their properties (chemical and mechanical resistance, etc.) and characterization of glaze-ceramic body system.
Aim of the course -
Last update: Kloužková Alexandra doc. Ing. CSc. (23.02.2018)

Students will be able to:

  • characterize the different types of surface treatment of various materials, from ceramic stoneware pottery over to china and technical ceramics,
  • describe the technological processes of various types of surface treatment especially frits, glazes and engobes including pigments and luster, to describe processes that take place in their production,
  • explain the principle of coloring of glazes by pigments, know the ways of decorating,
  • apply knowledge of the properties of surface layers in the preparation of stable glaze - ceramic body system.
Literature -
Last update: Fialová Jana (02.01.2018)

R: Hanykýř V. Kutzendörfer J.: Technologie keramiky, Silikátový svaz, Praha (2008) ISBN 978-80-86821-48-1

R: Eppler R.A., Eppler D.R.: Glazes and glass coatings, The American Ceramics Society (2000) ISBN 1-57498-054-8

A: Herainová M.: Glazury, keramické barvy a dekorační techniky, Silikátový svaz (2002) ISBN 80-903113-1-8

A: Hopper R.: The ceramic spektrum (A simlified Aproach to Glaze and Color Development) The American Ceramics Society (2009) ISBN 978-1-57498-302-9

A: Gulevič O, Kouba V. a kol.: Technická keramika, glazury a keramické barvy, SNTL Nakladatelství technické literatury, Praha (1969)

Learning resources -
Last update: Kloužková Alexandra doc. Ing. CSc. (22.02.2018)

Study materials for lectures at the teacher

Syllabus -
Last update: Kloužková Alexandra doc. Ing. CSc. (23.02.2018)

1. Introduction - history of use of surface treatments in ceramic manufacture

2. Basic classification of of surface treatments (glazes and engobes etc.), coloring of chemical compounds

3. Historical and contemporary raw materials for the preparation of glazes, engobes and pigments

4. Processes related to glazing, properties of glazes

5. Glaze composition calculations, selection of appropriate glazes and engobes

6. Colorless glazes - low-melting, high-melting

7. Color glazes - types of colors and pigments

8. Preparation technology of ceramic colors

9. Preparation of glazes, special glazes - art colors, crystalline colors etc.

10. Types of ceramic decoration I - overglaze, underglaze, majolica colors

11. Types of ceramic decoration II - salts, lusters, gold and silver compounds, engobes

12. Decoration techniques - plastic, color printing, steel printing, etching, silk-screen printing, rotocolor etc.

13. Glaze defects and colors, defectoscopy

14. Special surface treatments of ceramics, lapping and joining of ceramics

Registration requirements -
Last update: Kloužková Alexandra doc. Ing. CSc. (22.02.2018)

Inorganic materials of monumets I or Inorganic Non-Metallic Materials

Course completion requirements -
Last update: Kloužková Alexandra doc. Ing. CSc. (20.02.2018)

In order to become eligible for classification the student has to pass a written qualification test. The final exam is oral and concerns the content of the whole lecture course.

Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 0.8 22
Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi 0.8 22
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 1.4 40
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