Ceramic Wadding Recipe

Dinah snipes steveni on mon 20 sep 10 i ve posted this recipe before.

Ceramic wadding recipe.

Wadding can be made from your clay body grog sawdust. The surfaces in contact with wadding are masked from the atmosphere. The kiln atmosphere will reach around the wadding everywhere except the surfaces in direct contact with the wadding. Equal parts silica sand grog sawdust and fireclay.

See more ideas about glaze ceramic glaze recipes glaze recipe. This is a recipe i kindly received from phil rogers if you didn t catch it on the video its 4 parts alumina hydrate 2 parts china clay 1 part ball clay and 1 part grog. Alumina hydrate wadding updated sat 25 sep 10. Feb 28 2016 explore guy jencks s board woodfire glaze recipes followed by 145 people on pinterest.

How to find the best kiln wash for your firing temperature and methods. A tip from jane hamlyn known for her salt gl azed ware. Alumina hydrate 2 lb china clay 8 oz twvd ball clay 4 oz grog 80 s dust 4 0z. A cool trick for spectacular wood fired pottery effects.

Most potters mix up a batch of wadding roll up little balls of the stuff and stick em to the bottoms of their pots with spit or water as they are loading the kiln. Wadding is necessary in salt soda to prevent pieces from being glued to kiln shelves by atmospheric sodium or glaze runs. When i was in graduate school visiting artist kirk mangus shared his wadding recipe. The benefit of this type of wadding is that the mark it leaves is the bare clay color.

Stacking in a salt or soda or wood kiln. In any vapor firing process such as wood salt or soda wadding small balls or rolls of a refractory clay mixture is a must to keep surfaces from sticking together. Or you can also use straight kaolin as well. Long a process of industry salt firing has also been embraced by ceramic artists and potters because of the beautiful read more.

Another wedding recipe is parts kaolin alumina hydrate. Wadding is made of the exact same ingredients as kiln wash but with much less water so it s more of the consistency of clay.