Fredrick Paget on tue 9 may 06
>
>......, I decided that I want to create a piece by putting a photo
>of Grandmama from my youth onto the plate, break it into pieces &
>re-assemble.
>If anyone has an advice for me in this crazy endeavor, please -- help!!
>Jodi Henderson
You can get a color decal made from a photo for about 35 to 45
dollars by the Zimmer process. There are 4 or 5 sellers of these
services in the USA.
One is :
Put the decal on as per instructions and fire it to the recommended
cone. Then smash away. Glue it back together with "DAP Silicone
adhesive for Porcelain, ceramics, china, crystal, or jewelry". This
drys clear . I have used it for many years. It used to bear the Dow
Corning label but they turned the consumer marketing over to DAP some
years ago.
--
From Fred Paget,
Marin County, CA, USA
fredrick@well.com
Charter Member Potters Council
Jodi Henderson on tue 9 may 06
Hi Clayarters'.
I need to know how best to put a photo onto already fired porcelain plate.
Short back story:
The plate was my grandmother's china, shipped back to her by my dad from Okinawa where he was stationed in 1967. My grandmama is now living with my parents because she's unable to care for herself. When she first moved, she was fine, but her vision was going. She passed on the china to me so that I could enjoy it rather than think of her death when I saw it. I've always been very close to my Grandmama, she practically raised me, and her rapid deterioriating due to dementia is very hard on me.
I made an elegant birthday dinner for my husband tonight and served it on Grandmama's china. My two-and-a-half-year-old (I know, what was I thinking?!?!?) managed to fidget herself over backwards, crushing herself and Grandmama's plate under a wrought-iron chair. Kid's fine, plate has a huge chip out of it.
Many sobs later, over the parallels between Grandmama & the plate, I decided that I want to create a piece by putting a photo of Grandmama from my youth onto the plate, break it into pieces & re-assemble.
If anyone has an advice for me in this crazy endeavor, please -- help!!
Thanks,
Jodi Henderson
Newnan, GA
Paul Lewing on wed 10 may 06
on 5/9/06 6:31 PM, Jodi Henderson at jlalchemy1@BELLSOUTH.NET wrote:
> I decided that I want to create a piece by putting a photo of Grandmama from
> my youth onto the plate, break it into pieces & re-assemble.
Jodi, There are now people out there who will make you small quantities of
decals of any image, including photos, by a digital process. I don't have
an address for you on that but a guy named Garth Johnson at
www.potteryliberation.com uses these decals and I know he'll tell you where
to get them.
But I do have an issue to point out to you that you probably are not aware
of. You are undoubtedly going to be firing this to china paint
temperatures, like cone 015 or lower. There's a thing that happens to china
painted pieces sometimes, and it's more likely to happen on used china than
on new. Sometimes a network or smudge of black color will appear between
the clay and the glaze in spots. China painters cal this "mildew" because
that's what it looks like. There are several theories about what causes it,
but nobody's really sure. But everybody agrees that it is the very devil to
get rid of. I've also seen the glaze on used china bubble, and I've seen it
sluff off chunks the size of a quarter.
So before you go to the trouble of having an image made to fire onto this
plate, fire it to about cone 016 or so, and make sure it won't develop
mildew. The plate might well break as well, if it has developed any
hairline cracks. I know you're going to break it anyway, but that would
make it harder to apply your picture.
Good luck with this. It sounds like a neat tribute.
Paul Lewing
Linda Arbuckle on thu 11 may 06
See the Print and Clay web site:
http://www.printandclay.net/
There's a book called "Ceramics and Print" by Paul Scott that may be
helpful.
I put some info by Denise Pelletier up on laser-printed decals. If you
can live with monochrome, iron-colored images, laser decals are cheap
and fun.
http://lindaarbuckle.com/arbuckle_handouts.html see the laser decal
link. Images of decals on celadon.
Laser decal paper is available from Bel Decal:
Bel Inc
6080 NW 84 Avenue
Miami Florida 33166
Phone 593 0911 Fax 305 593 1011
http://www.beldecal.com/
http://www.beldecal.com/laser_paper.html
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