Ceramic Wadding Recipe

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Ceramic wadding recipe.

Alumina hydrate wadding updated sat 25 sep 10. Wadding can be made from your clay body grog sawdust. 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. When i was in graduate school visiting artist kirk mangus shared his wadding recipe.

The fireclay wadding acts as a resist protecting the area underneath from ash accumulation. A tip from jane hamlyn known for her salt gl azed ware. Or you can also use straight kaolin as well. Wadding is necessary in salt soda to prevent pieces from being glued to kiln shelves by atmospheric sodium or glaze runs.

A cool trick for spectacular wood fired pottery effects. Stacking in a salt or soda or wood kiln. Alumina hydrate 2 lb china clay 8 oz twvd ball clay 4 oz grog 80 s dust 4 0z. Long a process of industry salt firing has also been embraced by ceramic artists and potters because of the beautiful read more.

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. How to find the best kiln wash for your firing temperature and methods. Equal parts silica sand grog sawdust and fireclay. Dinah snipes steveni on mon 20 sep 10 i ve posted this recipe before.

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. The kiln atmosphere will reach around the wadding everywhere except the surfaces in direct contact with the wadding. Feb 28 2016 explore guy jencks s board woodfire glaze recipes followed by 145 people on pinterest.

The surfaces in contact with wadding are masked from the atmosphere. It s taken from the ceramic review book of clay bodies and glaze recipes.