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Handbuilding Methods

Handbuilding Methods. Extruding Press Moulds Formers Surface Treatment / Exploration. Extrusion. ‘Plastic’ clay forced through a ‘die plate’. Die plate can be customised to alter the shape, dimension and wall thickness of the extrusion.

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Handbuilding Methods

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  1. Handbuilding Methods ExtrudingPress Moulds Formers Surface Treatment / Exploration

  2. Extrusion • ‘Plastic’ clay forced through a ‘die plate’. • Die plate can be customised to alter the shape, dimension and wall thickness of the extrusion. • Useful for making sections that can be used to construct a piece or to create repetitive elements. • Can also be used as a ‘Former’.

  3. Extrusion

  4. Extrusion • Hollow extruded tubes used as ‘former’ for extruded coil sculptural pieces.

  5. Formers • Customised support for each module / part during the firing process. • Can be made using extrusion process, from a plaster mould or can be hand-made. • Can be used repeatedly and fired multiple times.

  6. Formers

  7. Formers • ‘Ceramic Fibre’ or ‘Silica Sand’ can also be used to support modules or parts during the firing process instead of making a former.

  8. Press Moulds • Enables user to make multiples of a particular form or an embellishment to form. • Made using plaster to press mould into. • Hand carved, hand made or plaster carved designs can be made into a press mould.

  9. Press Moulds

  10. Surface Treatments • Anything can be used to ‘mark make’ or create surface texture. • Any texture you create can be replicated into a press mould if desired. • ‘Burnishing’ is a tedious but rewarding treatment as it produces a semi gloss finish without having to glaze.

  11. Surface Treatments ‘Mark making’

  12. Surface Treatments Burnishing

  13. Surface Treatments Smoke Firing

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