Making Ceramic Plates With Slabs

When rolling slabs make sure you roll it out evenly in all directions otherwise you could compress one side more than.

Making ceramic plates with slabs.

Making plates isn t the easiest thing to do but you can handle it if you learn a little ceramics. Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay. Sort of like a sandwich i have followed this many times while making tiles coasters or murals and got good results. Learn how to create a plate with clay.

Save leftover clay for feet balls of clay for feet by hand or foot coil of clay for foot by wheel. Repeat this on the other side. Simply take the time to rotate the clay after each rolling. Make sure clay wetness is very uniform.

First roll out the ceramic. Next use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object. Thinner plates are more likely to warp. Roll slab to 3 8 to 1 2 thickness and large enough for at least one plate per slab.

After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card. Clay should be very uniform. Place newspaper pattern on slab and cut out plate using a fettling knife a plastic picnic knife works well for elementary age artists. Use the excess clay to build support pieces then curve the edges.

Make slab and cut. Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay. Thickness should be even. First roll out the ceramic.

Repeat this on the other side. Avoiding the creation of a grain while making slabs is easy and quite straight forward. Next use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object. After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card.

This video teaches you how to make slab dinnerware with easy home made molds. It is also helpful to flip a slab over and roll it on both sides rather than just one. In this video we learn how to make a ceramic slab plate. Once the slab is rolled we leave it open for 1 2 hours cut the edges etc.

Make sure the clay is thick enough. And later place one more piece of cotton cloth on top of the slab and place another plywood on top of it. More talc and more grog in the clay can help with many problems. If rolling a slab roll it in multiple directions.

To make a ceramic plate you ll need to roll out clay or throw it on a potter s wheel create a shape let it dry and fire it in a kiln. Dry all pieces slowly and evenly. To flip a large slab you will need two pieces of canvas larger than the slab will be. Make sure drafts aren t causing uneven drying.

Keep pieces away from the edge of the kiln.