Ceramics by Elisabeth Landberger

Author:Elisabeth Landberger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: 2012-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

Stamping

Stamping, pressing or rolling patterns into clay is another way to decorate your creations. Here too, you can use things around you for tools, such as seedpods, seashells, wires or screw heads.

If you have your own patterns or figures, you can often make your own stamps. If you make them out of clay, you only need to bisque fire them before they are ready to be utilized. Carve your pattern into leather hard clay, allow it to dry, and press soft clay into the carved pattern. This way you will get two stamps, one that creates a bulging pattern, and another that produces a hollow design. Remember that writing will be inverted if you stamp it on.

You can also produce stamps out of plaster. You can create roller stamps by casting a plaster plate that is about 1.2 inches thick, or as thick as you wish the pattern to be. Carve the pattern all around it without any seams showing. Punch a hole straight through the plaster so that you can thread a thick steel thread or something similar through it and bend the thread into a handle. Then you roll the pattern over the object that you are decorating.

You can also make a roller stamp by throwing a cylinder without a bottom. Make sure to create really straight walls. Once the cylinder is leather dry, you can carve a pattern into it. Let it dry and bisque fire it. Insert a round rod through it and roll your pattern onto a rolled clay surface.

There are roller stamps ready to buy with different patterns and letters if you do not want to make your own.

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