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southern ice casting slip

updated tue 13 dec 05

 

Jacqueline Miller on mon 12 dec 05


Has anyone tried to make a casting slip out of their Southern Ice porcelain
scraps? I am thinking of trying this. I love the translucency. I have never
made a casting slip but I do have some Darvan7 to defloc. Any thoughts woul=
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be welcome. I bought some porcelain casting slip from a local ceramic deale=
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but it turned out to have no translucency even when cast paper thin.
Jackie

Helen Bates on mon 12 dec 05


Hi,

These are links to Alyson Hayes of Australia, who apparently has made a
casting slip from Southern Ice:

http://www.australianceramics.com.au/jy05/index_journey.html?journey.html~main
(One of the objects shown here was thinly slipcast Southern Ice porcelain;
the others were of slipcast bone china.)

Other images of her work are of objects made of bone china:
http://home.iprimus.com.au/vandvin/alyson.htm
(Slip cast bone china objects)

http://www.gallowsgallery.com.au/images/CAAWA/slides/Alyson-Hayes.html
(1 slipcast object, bone china)

I have read that unlike bone china, Southern ice has no bone ash.

Helen
(Belleville, Ontario)