Slip Trailing Tips and Techniques

In this video, I show the basics of slip trailing application. Off camera, I prepared my slip by blending some of the clay body I normally use in a blender, then sieved the pudding-like slip to remove the grog from my clay. (I didn't want it to clog the tip of my bulb syringe) In this video I was unable to show the fired results because one of my children knocked over a shelf where all of these were stored and they broke.

Experiment and have fun. After all, if the slip areas don’t look the way you want them, you can wipe them off while still wet!

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