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Trying out some sintered glaze bits in passiflora glaze.
The glaze crystals were crushed and bisque fired. They stuck together more than I expected so I need to get a mortar and pestle to break them down if this is something I want to try more regularly.
Passiflora Glaze, made at Mudworks
When rehydrating bone dry clay: add 20% of the bone dry weight as water.
I love the way ceramic chains sound after a bisque firing 🥰 I'm pretty happy with this slip casting, but I do need to do a better job of cleaning up the links and I want to try out using a two part cutter to just cut a clay sheet into links, which would be faster than slip casting and wouldn't be hollow. I'm pretty pleased though. And almost to the point where I can make a shitton for some kink fashion items.
Setting up my new cover stitch machine and this mans videos are delightful. And his voice sounds great in x2 speed so I can speed through his explanations and then slow down for watching him thread the machine.
Huh. I've been slow drying this in my pottery wet box and when I checked on it this week it has decided to crack 😩
It cracked along the interface between coloured and uncoloured porcelain so I'm guessing it's some kind of flocculant issue. But I'm not sure how to explore this problem in more detail. I'll have to see if maybe I can find a pottery text book that might explain this issue in more detail.
Pearl Porcelain Stein
G: 3.25 lbs B: 2.5 lbs ∆mass: 0.75 lbs
Snow Porcelain Stein
G: 2.4 lbs B: 2.0 lbs ∆mass: 0.4lbs
Bisque Weights:
Greenware weights:
Dunting might be the cause of the bottom crack. The floating blue ended up too thick on the inside of the pot and the outside had no glaze on it creating stress across the bottom. Also, large flat bottom may have created an extreme heat gradient across the piece due to the flat/thick bottom acting as a heat sink to the shelf
Dunting generally refers to firing cracks that occur in ceramic ware as it is cooled in the kiln. The reason is generally uneven cross secti
Bloating may have been caused by either impurities in the Moroccan sand clay body, or Moroccan sand might be bad at handling excess heat and bloated because it was too close to a heating element.
The URL still showed up crisp and the stein is still pretty so I'm gonna glue it back together and send it to my friend anyways. I'll just add a note not to drink from it 😂
Huh, overnight one of the slipcast mugs split! How odd, it was a lot lighter than the other one.
I'll take it home and try another one later that's closer to 1 lb.
