Stovers on thu 26 mar 98
My children's school wants to do 'graduate tiles' created by 8th graders to
commemorate their school experience. Their preference is to place these
tiles outside, perhaps as a border inset in a concrete walkway that could be
added on to each year. They use a standard terracotta body and an ancient
but functioning electric kiln (could probably go to c. 1, but not much
higher).
My questions for the awesome expertise of this group: Can they do the tiles
outside (in New England)? How to protect from freezing/thawing (would a
commercial glaze do the trick)? Set them in thinset? My idea was some
low-relief work rather than glaze-decorated pieces, any other suggestions?
TIA,
Lanse Stover, Beverly, Massachusetts
(and if you like, check out my wife's web-site: www.jillo.com, she's a
children's book author/illustrator)
lanse@jillo.com
Morgan Glines on fri 27 mar 98
suggest you could cast bricks or thick tiles and set them in sand.
Replacing or adding new ones becomes much easier and some of the
interlocking patterns are pretty neat.
David in Southern Spain where it's warm but the levante do blow.
Stovers wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> My children's school wants to do 'graduate tiles' created by 8th graders to
> commemorate their school experience. Their preference is to place these
> tiles outside, perhaps as a border inset in a concrete walkway that could be
> added on to each year. They use a standard terracotta body and an ancient
> but functioning electric kiln (could probably go to c. 1, but not much
> higher).
> My questions for the awesome expertise of this group: Can they do the tiles
> outside (in New England)? How to protect from freezing/thawing (would a
> commercial glaze do the trick)? Set them in thinset? My idea was some
> low-relief work rather than glaze-decorated pieces, any other suggestions?
> TIA,
>
> Lanse Stover, Beverly, Massachusetts
> (and if you like, check out my wife's web-site: www.jillo.com, she's a
> children's book author/illustrator)
> lanse@jillo.com
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