Ceramic Wadding Recipe

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

Ceramic wadding recipe.

Or you can also use straight kaolin as well. Alumina hydrate wadding updated sat 25 sep 10. Equal parts silica sand grog sawdust and fireclay. 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.

Another wedding recipe is parts kaolin alumina hydrate. The benefit of this type of wadding is that the mark it leaves is the bare clay color. Stacking in a salt or soda or wood kiln. 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. When i was in graduate school visiting artist kirk mangus shared his wadding recipe. 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. Wadding is necessary in salt soda to prevent pieces from being glued to kiln shelves by atmospheric sodium or glaze runs.

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. Alumina hydrate 2 lb china clay 8 oz twvd ball clay 4 oz grog 80 s dust 4 0z. Feb 28 2016 explore guy jencks s board woodfire glaze recipes followed by 145 people on pinterest. A cool trick for spectacular wood fired pottery effects.

How to find the best kiln wash for your firing temperature and methods. A tip from jane hamlyn known for her salt gl azed ware. The fireclay wadding acts as a resist protecting the area underneath from ash accumulation. The surfaces in contact with wadding are masked from the atmosphere.

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