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Inlay Tiles

The inlay technique has been used to awesome effect for centuries.  You create an incised design in a colored clay body, then add a slip in a contrasting color. When you scrape off the slip, the design underneath comes through in crisp detail.  I have never been able to make it work. For these, I …

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White Slip Weed Cup 1

For the second set of weed cups, I first tried to scratch in the design and then fill it with white slip, using a metal rib tool to scrape it off. That didn’t work at all. My fellow ceramicists suggested that perhaps I had done it with the clay too wet (It was leather hard …

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