Talk:Slip (ceramics)

Some slips have little or no clay and some are not thin

I do not understand why this had been changed as the reasons are quite clear: some ceramics slips contain no clay (for example alumina bodies) and some slips are highly viscous (such as those used for fine fire clay) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.1.150.138 (talk) 11:44, 2008 July 8 (UTC)

balram yadav — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.70.236.201 (talk) 10:53, 2015 July 1 (UTC)

Re-write in English?

These few lines seem to have been edited to death and must now be incomprehensible to the general reader. Could someone re-write them in a form suitable for a non-specialist encyclopedia? I am willing to have a try if there are no serious objections. Marshall46 (talk) 14:35, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free!

It looked like this when I first wrote it...

Slip in a ceramic context is made by mixing clay with water and usually a deflocculent such as sodium silicate. The addition of a defloculant allows the water content to be kept to a minimum which reduces the amount of shrinkage when slipcasting. The mixing can be by hand or more usually in a blunger.

but has been much mangled since! Teapotgeorge (talk) 16:01, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese vase: slip?

"Chinese Cizhou ware vase with cut-glaze decoration"

Hi Johnbod. Unless it's explained how slip comes into play here, it doesn't seem to fit the topic, as glaze isn't slip. So please, if you don't mind. Thanks! Arminden (talk) 04:13, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please read the article: "Chinese pottery also used techniques where patterns, images or calligraphy were created as part-dried slip was cut away to reveal a lower layer of slip or the main clay body in a contrasting colour. The latter of these is called the "cut-glaze" technique." - "glaze" is therefore something of a misnomer, but it is the term used. Johnbod (talk) 04:25, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]