SLIP CASTING
In our last Newsletter we introduced our indoor fountains. Here is more more information on this.
In order to create a less expensive but just as high quality fountains we decided to take up slip casting. Not to replace, but to add to our hand-thrown work. We now slip cast much of our home decor fountain-ware by pouring liquid clay into plaster molds. The clay dries and a shell of the same clay we throw with forms in the shape of the mold.
We pour out the remaining liquid clay, extract our piece and finish it. That's a bit of a simplification but basically, that is the process. We then bisque and glaze these pieces just as we do the wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces, they all being made of the same clay body.
Because this is a simpler process and requires less skilled labor (apart from making the molds) we are able to offer these fountains at a lower cost.
Although all our slip-cast pieces are sold as home decor fountains, some of our thrown and hand-built pieces are are also sold for home decor. No cat fountain is slip-cast
. (You can use an indoor fountain as a cat fountain, just don't include the lights or essential oils.)
