How To Make Slip Ceramics

To prepare the clay slip wilson takes 100 grams of small pieces of bone dry clay and adds 10 50 grams of a ceramic stain.

How to make slip ceramics.

Paint a strip of this slip mixture onto the tile and write on the tile that this is a 2 mixture. You can use an underglaze pencil to write the 2 or scratch it into the leather hard clay. Step one is to have a 5 gallon bucket filled 60 75 with your bone dry clay then add water until it s a few inches below the rim figure 1. I always use wet clay to make slip.

Let it slake for 24 hours then mix it by hand a little with a stick figure 2. If you want to make ceramics by hand choose a clay that you can bake in the oven or air dry unless you have access to a kiln. 09 24 19 watch us make ceramic slip from raw instructional video. Every once in a while i spray water in the plastic bag so the clay doesn t get dry.

New diy video added stay tuned for more comments and subscribers encouraged thank you. Like liked by 1 person. This is known as deflocculation. Make a batch of slip out of the same clay body and add a small percentage of stain say 2.

First some basic information about making your slip. Deflocculation is to disperse the particles in a slip so that less water is required to make the slip fluid a few drops of sodium silicate can be used to achieve this. Clay is heavy it is not cheap to ship. Chemicals need to be added to the clay slip so that it has the correct fluidity.

I save all of my little scraps of clay put them in a gallon size plastic bag and when i have enough clay i make slip. And it should have a gravity ratio of 1 75 to achieve this you should have a hydrometer and a scale. Plastic containers with screw on lids that come in packs of 2 from the dollar tree. The percentages of stains varies according to the intensity of color she is trying to achieve.

I never use bone dry clay. Pull off a small piece of clay to work with and roll it into a ball then pinch pull and roll the clay to warm it up in your hands. Once you ve mixed the slip for about 5 minutes use a. For storing slip i like the 16 oz.

The process of slaking clay to make it into slip is a simple one. Make sure your slip is made from the same clay you re working with.