Creating A Press Mold Ceramics

Bisque firing is basically firing greenware unfired pottery at temperatures between cone 6 and 8.

Creating a press mold ceramics.

Our wide array of silicone press molds are ideal for working with clay. Press molds are the easiest and most effective ways to recreate your work multiple times. Jennifer poellot harnetty editor. Here you ll learn how to make ceramic molds as well as how to use them.

Add embellishments to thrown or molded clay or use them alone to create ceramic jewelry. The bisque firing will evaporate any trapped water and chemically bonded water in. One of the oldest of the mold techniques is a bisque fired press mold. Press molds also known as spring molds can be used to reproduce large quantities of a specific type of ceramics.

I try to keep my molds as clean as possible which i must say requires some effort in a ceramics studio. They can also be used to make the raised decorations commonly seen in the famous wedgwood pottery founded by josiah wedgwood the father of english potters you can use press molds to make ceramic jewelry. After first creating a press mold i clean off any residual plaster or clay with a damp sponge. First create a mold or buy a mold that works for this the clay is then pressed into the mold and the plaster evenly takes the moisture without cracking and sticks once the clay has dried to the leather hard stage the design is removed to dry or attach to other objects.

Browse through our archive of articles to find a variety of techniques from making plaster molds for slip casting and press molding to making bisque clay hump or slump molds to creating molds for casting clay sculpture. Make sure the mold cavity and face are clean and free of debris. In this post an excerpt from the ceramics monthly archives ben jordan shares his process for making a cup using plaster press molds.