Ceramic Wadding Recipe

Most potters mix up a batch of wadding roll up little balls of the stuff and stick em to the bottoms of their pots with spit or water as they are loading the kiln.

Ceramic wadding recipe.

The benefit of this type of wadding is that the mark it leaves is the bare clay color. See more ideas about glaze ceramic glaze recipes glaze recipe. Wadding can be made from your clay body grog sawdust. Dinah snipes steveni on mon 20 sep 10 i ve posted this recipe before.

How to find the best kiln wash for your firing temperature and methods. The surfaces in contact with wadding are masked from the atmosphere. Another wedding recipe is parts kaolin alumina hydrate. The fireclay wadding acts as a resist protecting the area underneath from ash accumulation.

Wadding is necessary in salt soda to prevent pieces from being glued to kiln shelves by atmospheric sodium or glaze runs. Equal parts silica sand grog sawdust and fireclay. It s got the same refractory properties as the kiln wash but it is usually only used in atmospheric firings where something is added to the atmosphere of the kiln that will create a glaze wood salt and or soda. Alumina hydrate wadding updated sat 25 sep 10.

It s taken from the ceramic review book of clay bodies and glaze recipes. This is a recipe i kindly received from phil rogers if you didn t catch it on the video its 4 parts alumina hydrate 2 parts china clay 1 part ball clay and 1 part grog. Stacking in a salt or soda or wood kiln. A cool trick for spectacular wood fired pottery effects.

A tip from jane hamlyn known for her salt gl azed ware. Wadding is made of the exact same ingredients as kiln wash but with much less water so it s more of the consistency of clay. Long a process of industry salt firing has also been embraced by ceramic artists and potters because of the beautiful read more. When i was in graduate school visiting artist kirk mangus shared his wadding recipe.

The kiln atmosphere will reach around the wadding everywhere except the surfaces in direct contact with the wadding. In any vapor firing process such as wood salt or soda wadding small balls or rolls of a refractory clay mixture is a must to keep surfaces from sticking together.