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.

• Useful for making sections that can be used to construct a piece or to create repetitive elements.

• Can also be used as a ‘Former’.

Extrusion

Extrusion

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

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.

Formers

Formers

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

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.

Press Moulds

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.

Surface Treatments

‘Mark making’

Surface Treatments

Burnishing

Surface Treatments

Smoke Firing