Glazes can come in a variety of surfaces. Surfaces vary from gloss all the way to very rough and rugged glazes.
Gloss
A very shiny, smooth, and glassy surface.Semi-Gloss
Not quite as glassy, but still quite smooth and shiny.Satin
Smooth glazes with a sheen, rather than a shine.Matte
Somewhat rough glaze with no shine or sheen to them. Not glassy-looking at all. Matte glazes may be broken into semi-matte, satin-matte, matte, and stony-matte.Orange-Peel
Distinctive texture that occurs during salt-firing, the glaze’s surface is smoothly bumpy, like that of the skin of an orange.Textured
These can be quite rough, even to the point of appearing and feeling sandy or even rocky. Mainly used on sculptural forms.
