Slip Marbling Ceramics

Chinese porcelain sugar bowl with combed slip marbled decoration c.

Slip marbling ceramics. 1795 slipware is pottery decorated by slip placed onto a wet or leather hard clay body surface by dipping painting or splashing. The great thing about marbling is that you will achieve a different effect every time. Jenette morgan 4 843 views 8 01 throwing colored clay swirlware duration. The trailer itself was a small clay vessel although leather fabric or animal horn may have also been used.

In this technique slip is brushed onto damp or leather hard clay after a resist of some form has been applied. Rubber slip applicators are filled with the various colored slips to be used in decoration conserve resources by starting simple with just two slips enlarging the color palette once sufficient comfort with the process minimizes material loss. The concept of the trailer was simple. A small tube reed or quill was inserted into the trailer which would be filled through a top hole.

How about painting the inside of the mold with a pure black slip to get the base color and then blending the painted black with a white slip using a variety of brush strokes to get the marbling effect then pouring the white casting. The essential tool needed for slip trailing and marbleizing was and still is the slip cup. Barbara costanzo 5 172 views 46 20 woodturning coring a. One such method involves using colored slips to create a marbleized look on pottery which is reminiscent of staffordshire style english marbled slipware.

The resist is placed in areas which are to remain slip free. This versatile liquid form of clay can be used in a multitude of different ways to create and embellish ceramic art. Ceramicists in action duration. This video is for educational use to teach introductory level ceramics students about the decorative techniques slip feathering and slip marbling.

Slips can be used with resists in order to decorate pottery. Some slips will also give a moderate degree of the hardening effect and decreased permeability that a ceramic glaze would give. There are two. Cut or roll out clay slabs and put them on cloth scraps for handling.

Resists such as wax emulsions and hot wax repel the slip.