Hand-Making of Ceramic

With the development of science and technology, today's ceramic production technology has undergone tremendous changes, ceramic production technology continues to innovate and upgrade, but traditional handicraft technology still occupies an important position in ceramic art creation and production.

Mould-forming technology has been widely used in the production of modern ceramics.Workers use gypsum moulds to produce ,pour the mud into the moulds.According to the working procedure, most of mud in the mould is poured out successively. When the mud embryo of the mould is dry enough, the demoulding begins.At this moment, the complete ceramic embryo was produced.

After that, the most important step, manual repairing, began.After demoulding, because the surface of the ceramic body is not smooth, there are rough edges at the edges, and some of them still have die seams or slurry, so it needs to be further processed and trimmed, which is called manual repairment.Repairing is one of the most important processes in ceramic forming. Its main purpose is to make the surface of the ceramic more smooth, coherent and uniform. It is the key step to determine the perfection of the ceramic.

Embryo repairing depends on the experience and handicraft skills of embryo repair workers.Experienced technicians can clean the surface debris of the body, repair the pinholes and cracks on the surface of the ceramic embryo, and smooth the mold marks by repairing the embryo.Before glazing and firing, the ceramic embryo is repaired to a more perfect state, so as to improve the perfection and yield of finished ceramics.

Because of this, although with the help of mould, the production of ceramics still has a special manual personality, each product is unique in detail, different, not perfect enough. This is also the unique charm of ceramics.