Ceramic Wadding Recipe

Stacking in a salt or soda or wood kiln.

Ceramic wadding recipe.

Or you can also use straight kaolin as well. Equal parts silica sand grog sawdust and fireclay. A tip from jane hamlyn known for her salt gl azed ware. Alumina hydrate wadding updated sat 25 sep 10.

How to find the best kiln wash for your firing temperature and methods. Wadding is necessary in salt soda to prevent pieces from being glued to kiln shelves by atmospheric sodium or glaze runs. It s taken from the ceramic review book of clay bodies and glaze recipes. See more ideas about glaze ceramic glaze recipes glaze recipe.

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. Alumina hydrate 2 lb china clay 8 oz twvd ball clay 4 oz grog 80 s dust 4 0z. Wadding can be made from your clay body grog sawdust.

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. When i was in graduate school visiting artist kirk mangus shared his wadding recipe. The fireclay wadding acts as a resist protecting the area underneath from ash accumulation. Long a process of industry salt firing has also been embraced by ceramic artists and potters because of the beautiful read more.

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. 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. The benefit of this type of wadding is that the mark it leaves is the bare clay color. Dinah snipes steveni on mon 20 sep 10 i ve posted this recipe before.

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. Feb 28 2016 explore guy jencks s board woodfire glaze recipes followed by 145 people on pinterest.