Making Ceramic Plates With Slabs

Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay.

Making ceramic plates with slabs.

Make sure drafts aren t causing uneven drying. After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card. Avoiding the creation of a grain while making slabs is easy and quite straight forward. Dry all pieces slowly and evenly.

Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay. It is also helpful to flip a slab over and roll it on both sides rather than just one. Wedge extremely well or warm the clay up in a pug mill. Simply take the time to rotate the clay after each rolling.

Make slab and cut. Place newspaper pattern on slab and cut out plate using a fettling knife a plastic picnic knife works well for elementary age artists. Jayne s demonstration is for beginner potters to the advanced. Next use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object.

Make sure clay wetness is very uniform. Save leftover clay for feet balls of clay for feet by hand or foot coil of clay for foot by wheel. First roll out the ceramic. This video teaches you how to make slab dinnerware with easy home made molds.

Once the slab is rolled we leave it open for 1 2 hours cut the edges etc. And later place one more piece of cotton cloth on top of the slab and place another plywood on top of it. More talc and more grog in the clay can help with many problems. To flip a large slab you will need two pieces of canvas larger than the slab will be.

Sort of like a sandwich i have followed this many times while making tiles coasters or murals and got good results. First roll out the ceramic. Keep pieces away from the edge of the kiln. In this video we learn how to make a ceramic slab plate.

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. Repeat this on the other side. Thickness should be even. Making plates isn t the easiest thing to do but you can handle it if you learn a little ceramics.

Thinner plates are more likely to warp. Roll slab to 3 8 to 1 2 thickness and large enough for at least one plate per slab. When rolling slabs make sure you roll it out evenly in all directions otherwise you could compress one side more than. In this video we learn how to make a ceramic slab plate.

After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card. Use the excess clay to build support pieces then curve the edges. Repeat this on the other side. Clay should be very uniform.

Next use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object.