Making A Plate Lip On Ceramic Pottery

I know how to make a platter on the pottery wheel but with limited time in the studio i really need to come up with a ceramic slab project that i can repeat again and again.
Making a plate lip on ceramic pottery. Learn how to create a plate with clay. Watch this ceramics tutorial video to learn how to make some simple lips and rims with cut aways. The rim the outer edge of the piece. Not all plates have a distinct lip.
This two minute instructional video on making a porcelain plate will give you some tips and ideas for making lunch and dinner plates on the potters wheel. Part 1 of 12 how to make ceramic plates. The usual wide and flat european raised lip is derived from old european metalwork plate shapes. Chinese ceramic plates usually just curve up at the edges or have a narrow lip.
Welcome to my online pottery lessons. Learn about throwing a plate from an artist in this free ceramics and pottery video series. Often decorated for example with gilding. Today s post we put together a time lapsed excerpt from birdie boone s video simple elegance.
In this residency he had to make 500 plates in a relatively short amount of time for the center s annual fundraiser. Slab building glaze color exploration. The detailed instructions in this helpful how to video will help intermediate potters make different kinds of lips and rims and put them on their pottery. In today s post an excerpt from the pottery making illustrated archives sean shares his best tips on how to make ceramic plates in multiples jennifer poellot harnetty editor.
Production potters are most active in making large quantities of ceramic wares such as plates platters dishes bowls and so on. Production potters can sit down with a hundred pounds of clay and throw the same form all day. Handmade red and white pottery polka dot glazed 7 9inch 20cm side plate dessert plate unique ceramic dinnerware housewarming gift by city to cottage 3 3 out of 5 stars 4 27 95 27. The base the underside.