Finish the Bottom of Thrown Pots

By JDZ-Ceramic

There are two main options in how to finish the bottoms of thrown pots after they have been cut off the potter’s wheel. Which finishing technique you will use should be chosen before the pot is thrown.

Finishing the Pot Trimmed During Throwing

Pots that are thrown without excess floor, used to create a foot ring, still need some attention after they are thrown. Once the pot has been formed and trimmed on the wheel, it is cut off then left on the bat to dry until it is leather hard. When the pot can be handled without deforming, it should be lifted from the bat.

Turn the pot upside down. The bottom will show the marks of the cut-off line or wire. Brush away any crumbs of clay left over from trimming. Use either the pad of a finger or a barely moistened sponge and smooth the bottom edges and surface. Smoothing the bottom surfaces will help keep the pot from marring table surfaces that it is placed on after firing.

Finishing Trimmed Feet

Another option is to throw the pot with a deliberately thick bottom, with the intention of trimming away the excess clay when the clay is leather hard. Do as much trimming of the walls as possible while the pot is still on the wheel at the end of throwing, then cut it off. Once it is leather hard, a foot ring can be trimmed. Foot rings are often an elegant solution to the visual bottom of the pot.

Signing or Marking Your Pot

Most potters want to identify themselves as the makers of the pots they produce. You can make your own potter’s mark from wood or bisqued clay, then impress it in the clay while it is still damp.

Pots can also be signed when they are leather hard, once the trimming and smoothing has been completed. To incise your signature or sign, use a dull pointer tool or dull pencil. Do not use a potter’s needle or other sharp tool, since the sharp cut can encourage cracking. You can also sign your pot with a brush, using stain or slip.

What Is Pottery?

By JDZ-Ceramic

Pottery is generally considered to be containers made from clay. “Pot” is a term used for any number of container forms. Both words derive from the Old English potian, “to push”. When we consider how the potter pushes as they throw the clay on the wheel, it is easy to see how the process got its name. The term “pottery” may also be used as an adjective with some objects, such as small figurines.

In industrialized countries, modern pottery can be classified two ways. There is commercial pottery or ceramics which are produced in factories, and there is studio pottery which is produced by individual craftsmen. You may also hear of “art pottery,” which may be either produced commercially or by an individual craftsman.

Ordos ceramic reference space R & D Center of NC technology

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Ordos ceramic reference space R & D Center of NC technology

Kaolin resources to promote research and development, Junggar and Ordos City flag ceremony Porcelain Company Limited, Tsinghua University, Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Space, CNC Group Beijing in high-end art ceramic technology co-operation between the economic development in Zhungeer the establishment of a ceramics research and development center.

The internationalization of R & D center will be guided by the concept of the advanced, the level of commitment to advanced clay pottery production process, technology and equipment research and development, is the first to China’s space technology applied to the CNC production equipment in the ceramics, and kaolin to standardization of research and development, to achieve the industrialization of scientific research, so that in the Ordos country ceremony Porcelain Porcelain Co., Ltd. production base in the national project with truly industry, academia, research integration, first-class scientific and technological achievements and products, it will become to build Zhungeer kaolin international R & D forward position.