February 10, 2006, Newsletter Issue #180: Slip Casting Bodies
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Understanding Slip Casting Bodies
To some potters and sculptors used to the immediacy and tactile character of plastic clay, the liquid clay slip casting process can seem very distant. To others, whose only exposure to casting is the local artware shops where fragile low-fire ceramic frogs and nativity sets are made, the slip casting can appear beneath their dignity.
However, no matter what temperature or type of ware you make, the casting process is not only valuable to mass-produce ware but many shapes are very difficult or impossible to produce any other way............
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