Ceramic Dinner Plate Mold

Plaster mold for use with clay only.

Ceramic dinner plate mold.

Simply drape a slab of clay over the mold and let dry before removing from mold and firing. The evans family purchased starlite mold company in the year 2000. In ceramics wooden drape molds are a great alternative to the commonly used plaster molds. Wood molds also eliminate the risk of plaster chipping and contaminating clay.

This keeps clay from sticking to them and helps reduce warping. Ceramic shows we do not attend the ceramic shows. Lesson plan 21 shows how to make a plate with a drape mold. Like humps molds our slump molds are plaster templates that are useful for creating reproducible forms.

With the massive loss of manufacturers attending ceramic shows you have to know. Microscopic mold spores can float around and grow just about anywhere there is a moist environment including on your dirty dishes in the kitchen sink. The following manufacturers never attend ceramic shows. A smooth cast plaster mold perfect for making your own dinner plates.

Favorite add to. How to clean moldy dishes. Even in the rare event that these molds do chip off into the clay that forms around them wood would burn out easily in firing whereas plaster could cause cracks and possibly ruin your piece. Holland mold ceramic dinner plate 10 1 4 1958 mid century holland mold dinnerware amish farmer rooster chicken plate blue bird dinner plate shezashowgirl.

Certain mold companies such as albertas have their molds listed differently and you may have to list them and go the the last page to find the mold you want or use the mold search by name. A nice size for making your own dinner plates. The advantage of using wooden molds over plaster is that wood is less likely to chip and flake off into the clay. Nbe molds riverview molds which also makes ross molds starlite molds which makes albertas coles doc holliday donas duncan heinz some jamar mallory scioto starlite suncrest and some tl designs the other manufacturers may go to the shows.

Ceramic molds are usually made out of plaster for use with liquid clay slip while some may also be used as presses for clay slabs. Over the next 13 years a number of mold brands have been added making us the largest manufacturer of pottery molds in the ceramic arts industry with almost 12 000 designs available. Plaster molds are used in pottery because they absorb water out of the clay as it dries. At the ceramic shop we carry a number of wooden drape molds which are lighter weight alternatives to plaster molds.