Saturday 26 May 2012

Making a plate from Pittormie clay

This clay was always going to be the most difficult to use.

The clay seemed too dry to use. It is short (not plastic) and cracks readily. So this is a method of getting more water into already damp clay...
Clay is sliced and finger holes are made in the surface

Water is poured on

The slices are piled up

Normally the pile is left for a while, but in this case I wedged it straight away

The clay is bashed, flopped and rolled out as in previous plates

Flopped over the mould

Pressed down with a rubber kidney

Edge cut off


Footring attached

It looks great!

Oops, not so great. This is only a few hours later.


Attempt at a repair. Scoring the crack...
... push in sausages of clay... 

... smooth out...


... flip it over ... 


The cracks are on the front too

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