What’s on the Clay & Firing poster
A 5-row table: State · What you can do.
In order. Bisque near 1000 C; glaze firing 1100-1300 C.
- Plastic — Form, join and model freely
- Leather-hard — Carve, trim, and join with slip
- Bone dry — Sand only; extremely fragile
- Bisque fired — Porous, strong enough to glaze
- Glaze fired — Vitrified; nothing more can be added
Joins made after leather-hard fail. Score both faces and use slip while the clay still has moisture to share.
Questions about the Clay & Firing poster
- What’s on the Clay & Firing poster?
- A 5-row table: State · What you can do. In order. Bisque near 1000 C; glaze firing 1100-1300 C. Plastic — Form, join and model freely; Leather-hard — Carve, trim, and join with slip; Bone dry — Sand only; extremely fragile; Bisque fired — Porous, strong enough to glaze; Glaze fired — Vitrified; nothing more can be added. Joins made after leather-hard fail. Score both faces and use slip while the clay still has moisture to share.
- Who is the Clay & Firing poster for?
- Clay & Firing belongs to the Art & Design section rather than to a school year, because design is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning form & 3d can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Clay & Firing poster?
- Use it when planning a ceramic piece around a kiln schedule. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Clay & Firing belongs on the wall where that design work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Clay & Firing?
- Modelling & Carving, Armatures and Digital Fabrication sit alongside Clay & Firing in the Art & Design section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Modelling & CarvingArmaturesDigital Fabrication
- Is the Clay & Firing poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Clay & Firing downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Art & Design section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Clay & Firing poster print at?
- Clay & Firing is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Clay & Firing loses nothing.Printing guide
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