Pottery Tutorial How To Make Clay Slip Video At Home Quick and Easy

A step-by-step video guide on how to make clay slip for ceramics. A simple pottery tip video to help save you money. Clay Slip is useful for slip trailing, repairing broken clay pieces, filling in or smoothing areas of unwanted texture, slip casting or casting moulds, however the kind I make is more suited to repair and moulding clay together. Having a jar of slip on hand is useful for everyone working with pottery and raw ceramics.

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[gregskie]

Agreed. My readings suggest that it would be smart to use an N-95 or similar respirator when creating clay dust. Or, if you're not in Maine in February, do it outside!

[itsbunny]

Thank you so much I am trying to start doing my own clay stuff at home instead of at school and I all I could find was videos on how to make buckets full of slip instead of just a jar full like you did. Thank you!

[samuelturnerakabjornflamer]

Thank you. As a beginning but not novice potter, I am beginning to seek out DIY ceramic ideas. This one was very useful and clear. Thank you!

[AM-vifw]

Beautiful to the point video. If i had to guess why orange would be from the tomato in the ketsup.

[mossypaw]

Super duper helpful :) also love the sound of your voice! It's so calming!

[bruce]

Bought a used food blender to make slip. Works great!

[sam]

Wow, so it seems with this method one may be able to make there own crude powder clay without a grinder ... Though grinder is still the best option ...this video shows it's still possible to some extent without it. From there one can create different consistencies of slip as well sandcasting material

[fiercekrypton]

Just so you know that "dust" will kill you... silicosis is no joke.

[cadoo]

How dry was the clay before you put it in the bag?

[SamKatzHypnosis]

Could you make slip with air dry clay for slip casting? Flumo doesn’t ship to South Africa :(

[yohannaje]

Hello! great video, ive been trying to find the proportions for using engobe which would be just coloured clay right? you just buy the pigment and add it to the slip? Thanks in advance!

[whiterosefullstop]

Hi. would this method of making slip work for casting into a mold?

[angelmavy]

Can this slip be used to fill molds? I want to make dolls with slip casting but its quite expensive in my country, so If I could make them using this "DIY" slip it would be amazing!

[ClownWhisper]

The best way to make slip from dried clay is used a device called a ninja it's like a super blender and it turns the clay into a extremely fine powder

[fireverseceramics]

Fierce Krypton (and Susan Priem, if you’re indeed two separate people), please lay off the fearmongering.

Yes, dust is potentially dangerous – ANY dust, including that which lurks in the corners of our home or is kicked up outside with a strong wind (fun fact, if you live near a dirt road or similar, there’s probably going to be clay dust in the air whenever a car goes past or the wind kicks up, because many soils contain a lot of clay). And got some mould growing in a dark corner of your house? I can point to many instances where that’s been near-lethal. In fact, anything we put in our lungs has the potential to cause us harm, vaping being a prime example, as they’re now finding.

Yes, you can find information on the ‘Doctor of Google’ about silicosis being a danger for potters (believe it or not this is something I’ve researched ‘cause I kinda like my life and health). But try looking up something like artificial sweeteners in the same way, or vaping, or any number of foods/drinks/past-times that people still happily go about consuming, and you’ll find similar. There’s a lot of scary information out there, but most of it has to be taken with a grain of salt – except, of course, that I can point to resources that list “seizures, coma, and death” among the dangers of salt…

There is a scale of danger, and this is pretty far down on it. Silica particles become more dangerous after firing than they are at this stage, because the heat causes them to become more brittle and jagged. Additionally, they’re bound in alumina or kaolin minerals, which makes them denser/heavier and therefore less likely to penetrate deeply into the lungs (human bodies have handy filters to reduce the amount of particulates we breathe in, especially when those particles are [comparatively] large and heavy). Working with silica sand or silica fibre paper (both widely available, usually with no warning labels) after it’s been fired is potentially far more dangerous than working with clay in its raw form. As is working with various ceramic glazes.
You will never convince me that clay dust – which is present extensively in a wide variety of natural and man-made environments – is anywhere near as dangerous as working with chromium or barium, both of which are known significant hazards, and both of which are still used fairly widely (not by me) in ceramics.

Obviously I’m not condoning taking deep breathfuls of clay dust, and I suggest using a mask – which is common sense when dealing with anything that kicks up particulates that may be breathed in. I also talk extensively on my website about the potential dangers of elements commonly used in ceramics, and have separate sections that lists the dangers of many of the ingredients (including carcinogens, neurotoxicity, and believe it or not, radioactivity) . I provide as much information as possible for people to make up their own minds about what they want to use and how to use it.

Everything we do in life can potentially be seen as a danger. If you want to take a microscope to the other parts of my life – or anyone else’s – I have no doubt that you could find hundreds of elements there to say the same thing about. We all have to make our own decisions and weigh the possible consequences, considering how likely or unlikely the risks are. Otherwise we’ll end up paralysed by fear in a sterilized environment and never do anything with our lives.

[ele]

Good job! do you have any lead for KT 1-4 Kentucky Ball Clay retail? Thanks in advance.

[pascalnichols]

Or you could just soak the dry clay in a jar of water for 10 mins and pour the water off when it settles

[sharonhamilton]

Surely you are kidding. I need slip from scratch

[susanpriem]

A rebreather mask must be worn whenever you are working with airborne clay particulate. Stating it’s ‘not as bad as other chemicals ‘ is terrible advice. All airborne particulates can be breathed into lungs and therefore harmful. Always wear a mask when working with anything that could possibly become breathable. Please do your homework and be knowledgeable about health concerns before making a video