Ceramic Wadding Recipe

It s taken from the ceramic review book of clay bodies and glaze recipes.

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. When i was in graduate school visiting artist kirk mangus shared his wadding recipe. Or you can also use straight kaolin as well. 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.

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. A cool trick for spectacular wood fired pottery effects. The kiln atmosphere will reach around the wadding everywhere except the surfaces in direct contact with the wadding. A tip from jane hamlyn known for her salt gl azed ware.

Wadding can be made from your clay body grog sawdust. 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. Long a process of industry salt firing has also been embraced by ceramic artists and potters because of the beautiful read more. Stacking in a salt or soda or wood kiln.

Wadding is necessary in salt soda to prevent pieces from being glued to kiln shelves by atmospheric sodium or glaze runs. 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. Feb 28 2016 explore guy jencks s board woodfire glaze recipes followed by 145 people on pinterest. How to find the best kiln wash for your firing temperature and methods.

The fireclay wadding acts as a resist protecting the area underneath from ash accumulation. See more ideas about glaze ceramic glaze recipes glaze recipe. Alumina hydrate wadding updated sat 25 sep 10. Dinah snipes steveni on mon 20 sep 10 i ve posted this recipe before.

Alumina hydrate 2 lb china clay 8 oz twvd ball clay 4 oz grog 80 s dust 4 0z. The surfaces in contact with wadding are masked from the atmosphere.