How To Fire Ceramic Spoons

Jul 2 2016 lessons from the family garden involving soil water and sunshine.

How to fire ceramic spoons.

Almost all electric kilns are made from insulating fire brick. Make it so that each spoon hangs with support on each side from an unglazed hole on the spoon handle. Handbuilding techniques for distinctive forms. In this class i will show you how to hand build the spoon how to decorate it and how to fire it.

Ceramic spoons are a fun and challenging form to make and there are a lot of ways you can make them. I have a small salt jar with a ceramic spoon that i purchased from anthropologie i know i know a couple of years ago. Gwendolyn yoppolo prefers handbuilding her ceramic spoons in a couple of different ways and she shares the techniques on her new video striking serveware. Ceramic flatware can be a fun earthy addition to your kitchen or it can serve as a decorative accent in your home.

It is bisque fired and then glaze fired. Ceramic spoons are everywhere. The little spoon is so sweet. Firing converts ceramic work from weak clay into a strong durable crystalline glasslike form.

This class is perfect for beginers who want a quick result and usefull ceramic item that is perfect for home use or gift that is hand made and unique. The goal of bisque firing is to convert greenware to a durable semi vitrified porous stage where it can be safely handled during the glazing and decorating process. Every time i use it i swear that i will make my own spoons. Firing clay from mud to ceramic.

I used the ceramic spoon mentioned above to get the general shape that i wanted. Ceramic work is typically fired twice. If you d like to make your own ceramic flatware measuring spoons or serving utensils choose a flat work area where you can carefully mold your clay. I made some bisque molds.

In this post an excerpt from her video gwendolyn shares one example of how to make ceramic.