Ceramic Slip Making

First you need to collect some scraps of bone dry clay.

Ceramic slip making.

A gallon of good ceramic slip should weigh 14 5 pounds plus a smidge. Or you can easily make it by cutting of some thin slabs from your clay block. Ceramic mold making opens up endless potential for creative expression. This can either be scraps left over from the pottery you have been making.

Why not start with moist clay. Everyone who describes how to make slip fails to answer this burning question. Standard ceramic slip sold by dogwood ceramic supply. Our online shop is always open.

For storing slip i like the 16 oz. Why use bone dry clay to make slip. Phoenician plate with red slip now wearing away 7th century bc. And it should have a gravity ratio of 1 75 to achieve this you should have a hydrometer and a scale.

Standard ceramic supply s ceramic slip is a superior premixed ready to cast talc based nontoxic low fire white earthenware ceramic casting slip manufactured by standard ceramic supply and stocked and sold by dogwood ceramics for use by schools production studios and ceramic hobbyists. Information about our walk in retail store click here. Not only does ceramic mold making enable you to repeat a form over and over again it also makes individual forms lose their preciousness which frees you up to experiment more. Chinese cizhou ware vase with cut glaze decoration.

How to make casting slip from a regular body is an important skill for every ceramic artist to learn. That seems a lot less trouble. Miletus ware showing a red body covered by white slip then painted in blue c.