Take
Your Clay to Limits FAR BEYOND that which you previously thought possible!
Axner's Ceramic Paper
Clays blend premium high or low fire clays (such as stoneware, porcelain
or earthenwares, terra cottas, etc.) with lesser fraction of choice pulp.
The fired and glazed ceramic is indistinguishable to the naked eye from
a non-paper traditional clay. Pulp burns out in firing similar to wax.
Please note that the following information is NOT an exhaustive
instruction set on how to use Paper Clay. If you are new to Paper
Clay, it is strongly suggested you familiarize yourself with the techniques
explained in the books listed further down this page.
- How Strong
is Strong?: Handle bone dry ware with ease. Move large dry
unfired works anywhere... drive them in the back seat of a car. Some
work may not need firing!
- Survive
and Thrive: 98% of repairs to bone dry make it... even broken
legs, hearts, etc.
- Rapid
of Force Drying OK: Dry harden pots in direct sun, near heaters,
or warm (below 200F) kilns. Thermal shock of raku and freezing OK for
most.
- Build custom
hollow armatures in minutes: Fold 2D soft cutout shapes into
3D. Later your quickie hollow Paper Clay armatures will be dry and hard
enough to support new layers of soft Paper Clay. Moisten the surface with
water, and go. Open air or sun harden between wet dry episodes until
the work appears finished.
- Coil up
and up: Sometimes it makes sense not to score. Bone dry, air
hard Paper Clay coil shapes stay put. To quick seal between coils...
just sponge, brush, or dip a coat of slip (watered down mash of Axner's
Paper Clay) right over the dry. Voila! Gaps are filled, neat and even.
Ready for color and/or a kiln.
- Reduce
or end warp: Tile makers and muralists appreciate this feature
for slab assemply projects. Paper fibers hidden deep insde the clay
draw moisture evenly from within to assist a much more "even"
open air drying and shrinking process.
- Dry to
Dry Assembly Extra: Stir or mash your favorite blend of Axner
Paper Clay in water until it turns to a paste adhesive we call slip.
Liberally apply the slip to the two pieces of dried Paper Clay and press
them together. In minutes you have a strong join. To cut a dried slab
of Paper Clay, score a needle line on the surface then snap it apart
like glass. Box constructions with bone dry parts assemble securely
in minutes. When box side slabs dry out flat before assembly they stay
flat after.
- Single
Fire Glaze Option: Why pay more for bisque? Dry paper fiber
hidden in bone dry paper clay absorbs almost as much water as a bisque.
Meantime the extra green strength allows handling dipping, burnishing,
rubbing applying terra sigillata and etc. to bone dry ware. Stoneware
reduction, woodfire, electric, gas, pit, all methods suitable.
- Campfire?:
Yes, our Paper Clay can. Read how to improvise a firing in a home fireplace
or outdoor campfire!
- Non fire
always remains open for finishing works. Instead of glaze, use conventional.
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