How To Make A Ceramic Slab Plate

Leave the plate on the mold to dry completely while wrapped in plastic sheet.

How to make a ceramic slab plate.

Roll in multiple directions to create a slab. Repeat this on the other side. After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card. You don t need to flatten out the edge completely.

Press down firmly and roll out the clay. Pull the clay up away from the plate. Next use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object. Place newspaper pattern on slab and cut out plate using a fettling knife a plastic picnic knife works well for elementary age artists.

Roll slab to 3 8 to 1 2 thickness and large enough for at least one plate per slab. If necessary use water to moisten the edges if it s cracking. Make several similar slits at different points around the plate. Using your fingers smooth the edges of the plate.

Cut slits to help remove the surrounding clay. Once it is dry this could take up to two weeks bisque fire glaze and glaze fire the plate as you would with any other ceramic piece. Run your finger around the edge to smooth it. Cut through the border with the needle tool by making a slit from the edge of the plate out to the edge of the clay.

Repeat this on the other side. Next use a paper template to help cut your design or use a circular object. In this video we learn how to make a ceramic slab plate. Position the rolling pin so that it sits on top of the two sticks with the clay in the middle.

First roll out the ceramic. Save leftover clay for feet balls of clay for feet by hand or foot coil of clay for foot by wheel. After this place the clay on butcher or newspaper and smooth it out with a plastic card.