How to Make and Use Wadding — A Useful Pottery Material

Wadding is the topic of this video. How I mix it, how I use it and how I remove it from fired pots. It's an exceedingly useful material, if you're wood-firing, salt firing or just using a gas or electric kiln. I hope this films answers the many questions I'm often asked about the stuff.

Here's my how to tidy pots up post firing video:    • How I Finish the Bases of my Pottery ...  

Wadding recipe: 50% china clay, 50% coarse alumina hydrate, mix powders and then add water very slowly as the mixture tends to turn too watery very easily. So better to take it slow. Once it has a clay like consistency you can wedge it up and store it in an air tight container.

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Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction
0:09 - WADDING!
0:30 - How I mix it up.
3:25 - How I use wadding for lidded jars
6:55 - How I use wadding for mugs
7:20 - Talking about wadding use during my apprenticeship
8:53 - Using wadding to stabilise a kiln shelf
9:08 - Using wadding for propping up pyrometric cones
10:28 - Removing waddings from the jars
11:21 - Grinding clean the lid of the jar and the base of a mug
12:16 - Wadding glaze catches


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