Saturday, August 3, 2013

How to make ceramics

If you felt the urge and inspiration to create something with your own hands, you started with the simple dough to shape, are then passed to the famous moment and now you want to "dare" to something more luxurious, then here is that this guide may be very useful for you. Specifically, we will deal with how to work the pottery , explaining the basic techniques and the material needed for its production. Read the steps below to learn about the process and have some more opportunity that can be a stimulus for your creativity .

The first thing to do is to start to recover everything you need and prepare your work table so that you have everything you need at your fingertips once you have started to work with clay. In fact, it is the main subject.Take the amount you need so if you want to achieve something only with the help of hands, begin to beat it with the rolling pin over its entire surface. This process is important because it allows you to remove possible air bubbles in the dough.



Imagine having to build a simple vase on a circular base .First Roll out the clay to obtain a base of about one centimeter. With the help of a cup edges very thin and it has a circumference that you need, as used stencil and create the form on the clay you have cleared. Now that you have prepared the base, you can prepare the coils of clay simply rolling under his fingers on the desk. Depending on the height of the pot you want to achieve, you will realize the coils are sufficiently long and of course the diameter constant as possible.

Resume yet the circular base and, using a box cutter , start to notch the edge of creating nicks surface so as to take better attack the snake when fitted as an adhesive you need instead of the slip. The latter is formed by simple clay waste dissolved in water must have a creamy texture will not have to do anything but to wet the edge of the circle with abundant slip then take the head of the snake and begin to place it on the first lap circumference Done , made ​​other marks on the same sausage and add more slip and so on to achieve the desired height.  


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