Having fired one bunch of transfer decals and found the designs too dark, I created a second, lighter set of transfers.
They looked great before firing - blue and vibrant. But after a night in the kiln (closely following the manufacturer's instructions) I was rather disappointed with what came out - the designs look faded, washed out and grey. Sigh...
There was also an issue with bubbling of the transfers. Probably not from trapped water (I squeezed the buggers to within an inch of their lives to remove any moisture using the old 'rubber kidney'!) but more likely from excessive dabbing with a linty hanky or dust in the room (oops!) - once in the furnace the dust/ lint burnt off, taking the decal design with it. Oh dear...
Back to the old drawing board. Maybe the original, dark colour wasn't too bad after all...
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