Prevent Warping Ceramics

Placing a second piece of plywood over the tile adds just enough weight to lightly compress the tiles and helps prevent warping.

Prevent warping ceramics.

This might require experimentation but some bodies just warp a lot more. Use the right clay body. This time delay video demonstrates how a flat piece of drying clay can warp if bent while wet. It explains the idea of clay memory and how this affects the ceramic piece both through drying and.

Grog usually makes clay less likely to warp. Making ceramics is a science. The better you understand the technicalities of the process the easier it will be for you to prevent accidents such as cracking and warping. Keep pieces away from the edge of the kiln.

While both cracking and warping plague tiles plates and other flat pieces. Porcelain is especially difficult to throw without warping. Cracks particularly bottom cracks are more prevalent in bowls vases mugs and other upright pieces. For more technical detail on the factors contributing to clay memory and ceramic warping check out the september 2019 issue of ceramics.

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