Drape Mold Ceramics Definition

With drape molds you can quickly make plates and platters dishes and more in repeating and complementary sizes.

Drape mold ceramics definition.

The advantage of using wooden molds over plaster is that wood is less likely to chip and flake off into the clay. Gr pottery forms drape molds for moist clay slab building. Molde de asentamiento drape mold is a support a stretched cloth a wooden frame or rope network on which a clay slab is draped to shape as it stiffens. They are easy to use budget friendly and light weight.

Hexagon drape mold 9 x 2 ph235 part. Rim template 8 pack set includes. Pine wood drape molds for pottery. We can see molds made of wood plastic bisque clay or other substances.

An excellent selection of shapes and sizes. Drape mold base part. Drape molds are divided into hump slump and press molds. Is a support a stretched cloth a wooden frame or rope network on which a clay slab is draped to shape as it stiffens.

In ceramics wooden drape molds are a great alternative to the commonly used plaster molds. At the ceramic shop we carry a number of wooden drape molds which are lighter weight alternatives to plaster molds. Gr pottery forms drape molds for pottery are american made wood fiber products. Drape molds are molds or forms usually of plaster that is used to shape materials such as glass clay wax etc.

Wood molds also eliminate the risk of plaster chipping and contaminating clay. Like humps molds our slump molds are plaster templates that are useful for creating reproducible forms. Slump molds have fewer constraints since the clay will shrink away from the mold not toward the mold s surface. Square rectangular pentagons hexagons octagons round and more.

In hump molds the shaping is done by draping slabs of the material to be shaped over the mold hump. All sizes of our 4 styles 4 salad plate templates 10 75 4 dinner plate templates 13 75 create a decorative. 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. This video demonstrates how to make three variations of a simple drape molded forms using clay slabs.

Hump molds must be elastic enough to allow for the clay s contraction.