Tuesday 19 June 2012

Drying the base of Crail clay plates

The rims of plates tend to dry out first and so shrink slightly, hich causes them to rise up a little. In order to get the middle of the plate to catch up with the drying rim, I flip the plates over and put a dry bat (the disk potters throw on) on top and then flip the plates back over again. The dry bat draws out some of the moisture in the base.









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