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  2. Slip (ceramics) - Wikipedia

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    African red slip ware: moulded Mithras slaying the bull, 400 ± 50 AD.. A slip is a clay slurry used to produce pottery and other ceramic wares. [1] Liquified clay, in which there is no fixed ratio of water and clay, is called slip or clay slurry which is used either for joining leather-hard (semi-hardened) clay body (pieces of pottery) together by slipcasting with mould, glazing or decorating ...

  3. Ceramic forming techniques - Wikipedia

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    Pottery techniques include the potter's wheel, slip casting and many others. Methods for forming powders of ceramic raw materials into complex shapes are desirable in many areas of technology. For example, such methods are required for producing advanced, high-temperature structural parts such as heat engine components, recuperators and the ...

  4. Slip casting - Wikipedia

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    As far back as the Roman empire, potters created what is termed "Barbotine ware" by using clay slip to decorate the surface of pots. [39] " Barbotine pottery" is sometimes used for 19th-century French and American pottery with added slip cast decoration, [ 40 ] as well as (confusingly) 17th century English slipware that is decorated with thick ...

  5. Slipware - Wikipedia

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    Slipware is pottery identified by its primary decorating process where slip is placed onto the leather-hard (semi-hardened) clay body surface before firing by dipping, painting or splashing. Slip is an aqueous suspension of a clay body, which is a mixture of clays and other minerals such as quartz , feldspar and mica .

  6. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100—700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cm Jane Osti (Cherokee Nation), with her award-winning pottery, 2006. Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [1] Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component.

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  8. The Wilson Potteries - Wikipedia

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    The business probably included at least one work shed with pottery wheel, a pug mill for processing clay and a groundhog kiln. [1] According to James Wilson's son, work at the pottery was seasonal. Ware could only be produced between March and September because cold weather adversely affected the clay's consistency.

  9. Glossary of pottery terms - Wikipedia

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    Slip A suspension of clay, clay body or glaze in water.( Slip casting A technique for shaping an article by pouring a deflocculated, high-solids content slip into a porous, often plaster, mould Slipware pottery where decoration in slip is a main feature. Includes slip-painting, slip-trailing, and many other techniques Slop Another name for ...