Potter technique: Casting bodies

Casting bodies are liquid ceramic bodies which are made of powder body with water and deflocculant added. The liquid body is described as slip.

The slip is casted in plaster moulds. A distinction is drawn between hollow casting and solid casting processes. In both cases the porous, water-absorbent plaster mould absorbs water from the slip forming a solid layer.

The use of casting body and plaster moulds enables the potter and ceramists to “mass produce” on a small scale

Convenient for the immediate use, ready-to-use liquid casting body in pails.

Plaster moulds are available in well-assorted ceramic specialist shops.

 

Product Bild Application Firing range Firing colour Chamotte portion
0024
  • Throwing
1000 - 1150 °C white-light 0 %
0033 (Casting body) [Translate to Englisch:] 0033 (Gießmasse)
  • Casting
1000 - 1150 °C white 0 %
0033 0033
  • Throwing
1000 - 1150 °C white 0 %
0086
  • Modelling
1000 - 1140 °C white-light cream 30 %
0208
  • Throwing
1000 - 1280 °C white-light cream 0 %
0208 (Casting body)
  • Casting
1000 - 1280 °C white-light cream 0 %
0209
  • Throwing
1000 - 1300 °C white-light 0 %
0209 (Casting body)
  • Casting
1000 - 1300 °C white-light 0 %
0234
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1240 °C Paperclay/light cream 0 %
0240
  • Throwing
1000 - 1240 °C white-light cream 0 %
0241
  • Throwing
1000 - 1280 °C white-light cream 0 %
0245
  • Throwing
1000 - 1150 °C white-beige 0 %
0245 (Casting body)
  • Casting
1000 - 1150 °C white-beige 0 %
0254
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1280 °C white-light cream 25 %
0264
  • Modelling
1000 - 1280 °C white-light cream 25 %
0267
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1150 °C white-beige 15 %
0284
  • Modelling
1000 - 1280 °C white-light cream 25 %
0310 0310
  • Throwing
  • Pressen/Stanzen
1000 - 1150 °C red 0 %
0311
  • Throwing
1000 - 1140 °C red 0 %
0354
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
980 - 1200 °C red 25 %
0356
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1120 °C brown-black 25 %
0359
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1220 °C salmon 25 %
0364
  • Modelling
980 - 1200 °C red 25 %
0366
  • Modelling
1000 - 1120 °C brown-black 25 %
0369
  • Modelling
1000 - 1220 °C salmon 25 %
0371
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1240 °C grey-black 25 %
0373
  • Modelling
1000 - 1240 °C grey-black 30 %
0376
  • Modelling
1000 - 1240 °C brown-black 30 %
0384
  • Modelling
980 - 1200 °C red 25 %
0391
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1240 °C leather 20 %
0393
  • Throwing
  • Pressen/Stanzen
1000 - 1240 °C leather 0 %
0395
  • Modelling
1000 - 1200 °C yellow 25 %
0441
  • Modelling
1000 - 1180 °C white-light cream 45 %
0468
  • Modelling
1000 - 1260 °C white-light cream 40 %
0474
  • Modelling
1000 - 1260 °C white-light cream 40 %
0478
  • Modelling
1000 - 1260 °C white-light cream 25 %
0480
  • Modelling
1000 - 1260 °C white-light cream 40 %
0551
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1240 °C red 40 %
0552
  • Modelling
1000 - 1220 °C red 40 %
0554
  • Modelling
1000 - 1220 °C red 40 %
0559
  • Modelling
1000 - 1220 °C red 40 %
0579
  • Modelling
1000 - 1120 °C brown-black 40 %
0584
  • Modelling
1000 - 1240 °C salmon 40 %
0591
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1300 °C lilac-yellow 25 %
0592
  • Modelling
1000 - 1300 °C lilac-yellow 40 %
0596
  • Modelling
1000 - 1300 °C lilac-yellow 40 %
0930
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1280 °C white light cream 25 %
0931
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1280 °C white light cream 25 %
0933
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1000 - 1240 °C spot mass/leather 20 %
0967-5 Ceramic Body 967-5
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1100 - 1170 °C yellow 48 %
8251
  • Modelling
1000 - 1200 °C spot mass/leather 15 %
1100
  • Throwing
1000 - 1280 °C white-light 0 %
1100 (Casting body)
  • Casting
1000 - 1280 °C white-light 0 %
1101 (Audrey Blackman)
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1220 - 1280 °C white-translucent 0 %
1103 (White Passion)
  • Modelling
  • Throwing
1220 - 1240 °C white-translucent 0 %
1105 (Casting body)
  • Casting
1200 - 1280 °C Porcelain body 0 %
1112
  • Modelling
1000 - 1280 °C white-light 20 %