Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Glaze materials have mostly gone up in price over the last few years, but less than I expected. I definitely wasn't expecting any of them to have decreased in absolute terms, but a handful of them are less per kilo than they were in 2019 even without adjusting for inflation.

It would be really interesting to look into the supply chains and other uses for each of them to try and anderstand why the prices have changed the way they have. The two that get the most press are cobalt and lithium, but I don't know that much about any of the others.

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