Creating A Press Mold Ceramics

In this post an excerpt from the ceramics monthly archives ben jordan shares his process for making a cup using plaster press molds.

Creating a press mold ceramics.

Press molds also known as spring molds can be used to reproduce large quantities of a specific type of ceramics. Each silicone press mold from marvelous molds possesses innovative characteristics unique to our brand enabling the artist to cleanly unmold a perfect design with every use. First create a mold or buy a mold that works for this the clay is then pressed into the mold and the plaster evenly takes the moisture without cracking and sticks once the clay has dried to the leather hard stage the design is removed to dry or attach to other objects. To learn how he press molds his cup handles and adds beautiful slip floral decoration see the october 2017 issue of ceramics monthly.

Jennifer poellot harnetty editor. Our wide array of silicone press molds are ideal for working with clay. One of the oldest of the mold techniques is a bisque fired press mold. The bisque firing will evaporate any trapped water and chemically bonded water in.

Add embellishments to thrown or molded clay or use them alone to create ceramic jewelry. Make sure the mold cavity and face are clean and free of debris. I try to keep my molds as clean as possible which i must say requires some effort in a ceramics studio. Bisque firing is basically firing greenware unfired pottery at temperatures between cone 6 and 8.

Press molds are the easiest and most effective ways to recreate your work multiple times. They can also be used to make the raised decorations commonly seen in the famous wedgwood pottery founded by josiah wedgwood the father of english potters you can use press molds to make ceramic jewelry. Press mold uses.