Ravit Birenboim on mon 15 feb 99
Now when we know how to get a smooth surface, what about some ideas for
getting interesting textures using different materials and our slab roller??
Ravit
Dee Clay on tue 16 feb 99
Okay, here's an idea.
Rice is nice but beans are more musical.
I use rice to texture my slabs and beads. The rice pops out as the clay is
drying or burn out. I roll a slab first and then add the rice for a second
pass through. Careful not to make it too thin. Beans of different sizes make
very interesting patterns. Try not to get to anal with design. Good luck and
have fun.
Diane in Miami the home of the Coconut Grove Art Festival
Joseph Carames on tue 16 feb 99
I have enjoyed getting texture into rolled slabs.
At the community Studio I work out of we have a Brent Slabroller. It's
pretty big I would love to have one of my own - someday -.
To get some interesting textures I have used lace. We had some lace which
gave some cool patterns in the clay. Good places for the glaze to pool. i
like to get the glaze on and the wipe it off. Whta happens is that the
surface has a residue glaze finish and the imprinted areas have the
glaze. I don't know what kind of material that lace was but it wore like
iron. It got used up because people kept cutting it into ever smaller
peices. Soo frustrating. I think it was almost like plastic. Organza? no
guarantee on the spelling.
There were many other laces they each had a different pattern. And each
was a different material some would tear the clay some would get clogged
up, still others stretched and became deformed and were only useful a few
times. Of course my favorite never clogged and only needed to be cleaned
when I changed clay bodies.
Joseph Carames
In New York City
Were you can't raku in Central Park
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:48:57 EST Ravit Birenboim
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>Now when we know how to get a smooth surface, what about some ideas
>for
>getting interesting textures using different materials and our slab
>roller??
>Ravit
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Kelley Webb Randel on wed 17 feb 99
i've used fine wire for designs, rice, lentils, wheat, coffee bags of the very
textured burlap variety, and some burlap that is less textured. Some of that
orange fencing construction workers use to keep you out of danger (doesn't
work), comes in two varieties and i have both. Different cloths work. metal
washers. man, look around! Texture is everywhere!
Have a good one!
Kelley Webb Randel
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Chris Huske on thu 18 feb 99
Just another 2 cents worth on slab texture. I've used lace, leafs, hankies
(with decorative stitch), beans, beads, etc with much success, but being an
organic potter one of my favorit objects is wood. Go out to your wood pile =
and
find a log with wonderful bark on it and then roll into your slab like you =
would
with a rolling pin. Great texture for hand built vessels.
Letty C. Huske
huske=40ottawa.edu
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Subject: Re: texture in rolling slabs/ adding texture
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I have enjoyed getting texture into rolled slabs.
At the community Studio I work out of we have a Brent Slabroller. It's
pretty big I would love to have one of my own - someday -.
To get some interesting textures I have used lace. We had some lace which
gave some cool patterns in the clay. Good places for the glaze to pool. i
like to get the glaze on and the wipe it off. Whta happens is that the
surface has a residue glaze finish and the imprinted areas have the
glaze. I don't know what kind of material that lace was but it wore like
iron. It got used up because people kept cutting it into ever smaller
peices. Soo frustrating. I think it was almost like plastic. Organza? no
guarantee on the spelling.
There were many other laces they each had a different pattern. And each
was a different material some would tear the clay some would get clogged
up, still others stretched and became deformed and were only useful a few
times. Of course my favorite never clogged and only needed to be cleaned
when I changed clay bodies.
Joseph Carames
In New York City
Were you can't raku in Central Park
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NakedClay@aol.com on thu 18 feb 99
Hi gang!
I've been holding off writing to this string, but I need to add one more idea
to this list.
I go to the Goodwill or Salvation Army secondhand clothing stores, for my
textured fabric of choice. I use an oversized ribbed sweater I bought for
$1.00 some time ago. I cut the sweater up into small lengths (it was a womens
xxx large!), to fit the Brent SlabRoller I was using at the time. The ribs on
either side of the fabric made wonderful texture for the candle surrounds I
was making at the time. I won an award for one of these pieces, at an art
show.
When using fabric of any kind, remember to include the thickness of the fabric
into the calculation of the thickness of the slab of clay you want to roll.
Also figure in the thikness of the "cover blanket," and the shims below the
slab. Once one gets the "hang" of slab rolling, one can intuitively tell how
many shims to take out, or add to, a Brent set-up.
Other things I've rolled into slabs of clay: rust, from deteriorating metal,
or from used Brillo pads; pistachio hulls (it's best to soften the hulls in a
jar of warm water for a few days prior to rolling into a slab); coffee
grounds; leaves and flowers; lace; old towels (terry, with banded ends makes
an interesting pattern); very fine strands of copper wire (careful
here--copper can be a flux with many high-fire clays); moistened chunks of
dark clay on yellow clay or whiteware. Be imaginitive, experiment with off-
beat textures, and have a blast!
Milton NakedClay@AOL.COM, in warm, sunny Yucca Valley, CA
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