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| Surface Texture Tools Use and Tricks - Potter's Wheel |
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The Tools - Surface Texture
The information below will illustrate (pictures and video clips) how to quickly create beautiful and unique texture on your pots using some basic tools, simple techniques and slip. Have fun! |
Gear on an 1/2" plumbing pipe
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Pie crust cutter
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Several gears.
Can be purchased ($40)
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Wooden Tool
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Torch-bernzomatic-TS4000 |
Slip - no grog and sieved
How to make slip |
Spring flat metal.
Can be purchased ($25)
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Rope segment
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Using Gears or Roulette Tall and Flat Forms
Roulette is a technique used to texture the pot while it is turning. You apply the gear (see a few options below) to the clay while the pot is turning which turns the gear. Typically, the texture is created when the pot's walls are vertical and a bit thicker. When done with the texture, the pots shape can be changes to create a nonlinear potters. See video link |
Gear Texture top view
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Gear Texture side view
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Light pressure gear texture
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Flat form gear texture. |
Gear - flat form Video 1 |
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Gear - Tall form Video 2
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Use of Slip for Surface Texture
Using slip can be really rewarding if used properly. The slip should not have any grog in it, if made from different clay, test for compatibility with your clay (e.g., cracking) and it thickness should similar to yogurt where the shape can stay and hold the design achieved. It can be applied and formed by hand or with tools such as Mudtool red rib or a brush. Make sure the pot is hardens a bit (wait a few hours or dry with a heater / torch. If clay is too wet, the moister from the slip will weaken the pot and it will collapse. If the pot is too dry, the slip will not bond to the pot properly and will crack or peel off. The fun part about it is that if you do not like the design, you can try several times until you achieve the liked results. Eventually, the moisture from the slip will absorb in the clay and it be less applicable. Remember that whatever texture you achieve, it will shrink about 50% when the slip and the pot dry. In addition to having our students make beautiful pots using slip, children love to play with it and can easily achieve aesthetically pleasing results while having a lot of fun with the slimy texture of the slip. How to make slip |
Apply slip by hand
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Slip design with Mudtool
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Torch a bit to freeze design
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Kid love it |
and can do it for hours |
Mix really well |
Apply slip with brush
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Mud tool to create design
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Slip design when glazed
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Kids - street fair
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Dry pot to desired results
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A different pattern
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A different pattern |
Pattern close up
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Pattern when glazed
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Designed with rib |
Designed with rib |
Designed with rib
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Designed with rib |
Designed with brush |
Using tape to apply slip
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 Slip on large platter
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Slip on mug glaze affect
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How to make slip
How to throw a large platter with Surface texture
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Use of Other Surface Texture Tools
Curving can be a lot of fun and there are some sample below.
A) With a small piece of rope, one can create variety of textures pushing the rope against the clay as while moving it around.
B) Fluting: This stainless steel fluting tool makes it easy to carve pots with beautiful designs and exacting control. The unique design includes panels on the side of the cutting loop that act as “runners” (like on a sled) to maintain a consistent depth as you cut. This makes for a fluid stroke. Each tool has two fluting designs: rounded and pointed.
C) Various stamps and texture mats or texture molds can be purchased or made to order.
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A. Rope segment
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B. Fluting tool: Claytools.com |
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C. Slab mat texture supply
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D. Texture mold supplier
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A. Rope texture results
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B. Fluting sample pattern
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C. Stamped clay example
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D. Hand building project using slab mats - clay quilt |
D. Vase - Texture mold
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