Techno File: Clay Body Shopping
Choosing a clay body to fit your personal aesthetic plus all of your glaze, kiln, and customer needs can be … Read More
Amount of water required to bring a dry clay to its state of ideal plasticity. Common clay test used to determine this amount. The more water needed, the finer the particle size, the more plastic the clay, and the greater the drying shrinkage. Source: Clay: A Studio Handbook
Choosing a clay body to fit your personal aesthetic plus all of your glaze, kiln, and customer needs can be … Read More
The most challenging firing that ceramic artists undertake is the bisque firing. It is also, more often than not, the … Read More
Most beginning potters pay little attention to bisque firings until they experience an explosion. More often than not, glaze blemishes … Read More
Most beginning potters pay little attention to bisque firings until they experience an explosion. More often than not, glaze blemishes … Read More
Plasticity is created by a negative electrostatic charge, and clay memory is caused by a positive charge. Check out how … Read More
Careful control of the drying and firing stages is necessary for successful completion of large-scale sculpture and tilework. Although climatic … Read More