Making Ceramic Plates With Slabs

Keep pieces away from the edge of the kiln.

Making ceramic plates with slabs.

After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card. 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. Place newspaper pattern on slab and cut out plate using a fettling knife a plastic picnic knife works well for elementary age artists.

Sort of like a sandwich i have followed this many times while making tiles coasters or murals and got good results. Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay. Learn how to create a plate with clay. If rolling a slab roll it in multiple directions.

Roll slab to 3 8 to 1 2 thickness and large enough for at least one plate per slab. To flip a large slab you will need two pieces of canvas larger than the slab will be. After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card. Next use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object.

Thickness should be even. Clay should be very uniform. Jayne s demonstration is for beginner potters to the advanced. Avoiding the creation of a grain while making slabs is easy and quite straight forward.

This video teaches you how to make slab dinnerware with easy home made molds. Repeat this on the other side. Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay. Repeat this on the other side.

Make sure clay wetness is very uniform. 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. Use the excess clay to build support pieces then curve the edges. 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. Once the slab is rolled we leave it open for 1 2 hours cut the edges etc. First roll out the ceramic. Wedge extremely well or warm the clay up in a pug mill.

Save leftover clay for feet balls of clay for feet by hand or foot coil of clay for foot by wheel. Making plates isn t the easiest thing to do but you can handle it if you learn a little ceramics. Make sure drafts aren t causing uneven drying. Make slab and cut.

More talc and more grog in the clay can help with many problems. In this video we learn how to make a ceramic slab plate. Thinner plates are more likely to warp. Dry all pieces slowly and evenly.

First roll out the ceramic.