Ceramic Slip Casting
Mold making and slipcasting 101.
Ceramic slip casting. As the liquid filters into the mould a cast is formed on the mould surface. These products can be used for industrial microfiltration gas separation and high. Molds are a simple way to create simple or complex forms and make multiple copies of them with little effort. Slipcasting or slip casting is a ceramic forming technique for the mass production of pottery and other ceramics especially for shapes not easily made on a wheel slipcast ware should not be confused with slipware which is pottery formed by any technique that is decorated using slip in slipcasting a liquid clay body slip usually mixed in a blunger is poured into plaster moulds and allowed.
The ceramic form shown here is a slip cast jug that i designed as part of a college tableware design project. Slip casting facilitates the mass producing of ceramics but doesn t need any particularly specialist equipment and can be done in the studio. Some potters tend to favor this method as slip casting makes pieces that are tricky to hand build or create on the wheel much easier. This tutorial is demonstrating how to slip cast porcelain in an already existing pl.
This happens because the mold absorbs the water from the slip through its pores collecting the ceramic particles against the mold. This is a step by step tutorial on how to slip cast. The capillary action due to the pores in the mould withdraws the liquid from the slip. A slip casting process with demolding of the outer mold and firing of the mold core see figure 5 31 was used to prepare a porous α al 2 o 3 ceramic tube with inner diameter of 7 mm wall thickness of 1 5 mm length of 20 cm average pore size of 1 μm and porosity of 43 created by sintering 52.
With the construction process simplified the individual forms lose their preciousness which allows you the freedom to creatively experiment. Dependent on how many molds you have slip casting can create hundreds of identical pieces.