Prevent Warping Ceramics

Making ceramics is a science.

Prevent warping ceramics.

The better you understand the technicalities of the process the easier it will be for you to prevent accidents such as cracking and warping. Tiles and slabs will shrink while drying so use enough weight to hold them. You may even want to build moats around the piece to ensure even drying. This time delay video demonstrates how a flat piece of drying clay can warp if bent while wet.

Porcelain is especially difficult to throw without warping. It explains the idea of clay memory and how this affects the ceramic piece both through drying and. This might require experimentation but some bodies just warp a lot more. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube.

For more technical detail on the factors contributing to clay memory and ceramic warping check out the september 2019 issue of ceramics. Cracking and or warping of pottery during drying or firing is a class of problems that frustrates almost every potter at one time or another. Keep pieces away from the edge of the kiln. Grog usually makes clay less likely to warp.

Cracks particularly bottom cracks are more prevalent in bowls vases mugs and other upright pieces. While both cracking and warping plague tiles plates and other flat pieces. Placing a second piece of plywood over the tile adds just enough weight to lightly compress the tiles and helps prevent warping.