Archive for the 'Earthenware' Category

The Earthenware Ceramics in Environment

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

The Earthenware Ceramics in Environment
Ms.Craver is the first one to present a scientific publication on mechanistic study of the effectiveness of removing bacteria by using the clay made pot filter. There are many research groups experimenting this concept throughout the world to make sure the system work properly and effectively. As per Ms.Craver even without […]

The Earthenware Ceramics in Environment

Friday, September 11th, 2009

The Earthenware Ceramics in Environment
The low cost clay based Ceramic Engineering material is made out of simple clay pot and a plastic bucket. The pots are manufactured out of local clay and the local labour. The local clay is mixed with saw dust and impregnated with colloidal silver. When the pot is fired the burning […]

The Earthenware Ceramics in Environment

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

The Earthenware Ceramics in Environment

The Earthenware Ceramics material made out of simple clay can save millions of lives each year. This was experimented and established by Ms.Craver along with her team of Engineers at the University of Rhode Island.
They have attempted to put a simple clay based Ceramic Technology to use in areas where […]

OTHER VARIETIES OF EARTHENWARE BODIES (..contd)

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Sanitary Ware Body:
Sanitary Ware also belongs to Earthenware group. Originally Sanitary Ware was prepared out of a porous earthenware body and fired at 1150oC. The body was very porous and absorbed lot of moisture and became unhygienic during usage. This has put lot of pressure on the Sanitary Ware manufacturers and further developments took […]

OTHER VARIETIES OF EARTHENWARE BODIES (..contd)

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Electrical Porcelain Body (..contd):
The raw materials like Clays are blunged separately, the non-plastic materials like Feldspar, Quartz and Talc are dry ground or wet ground. The plastic clays and the non-plastic ground materials are mixed together to prepare a liquid slurry. This slurry is then passed through sieves and magnets and stored in storage […]

OTHER VARIETIES OF EARTHENWARE BODIES (..contd)

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Electrical Porcelain Body:
A typical Electrical Porcelain Earthenware Body for making low tension insulator normally will have the following recipe:
Ball Clay – 20%
China Clay – 20%
Quartz – 30%
Feldspar – 20%
Talc – 10%
The high tension body will have the following recipe:
Ball Clay – 30%
China Clay – 10%
Quartz – 30%
Feldspar – 30%
The low tension insulators such […]

OTHER VARIETIES OF EARTHENWARE BODIES (..contd)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

White Wall Tile Body:
The wall tile body also belongs to Earthenware and is used world wide for the production of white wall tiles. The common recipe used for making white wall tile body is as follows:
Ball Clay – 25%
China Clay – 25%
Quartz – 40%
Talc – 10%
The raw materials are mixed in a Ball mill […]

OTHER VARIETIES OF EARTHENWARE BODIES (..contd)

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Jasper:
The Jasper body was first produced by Wedgwood and is still popular today throughout the world. It is also regarded as a vitreous earthenware body. In this body Barium Sulphate is used as a major Flux. The following is the common body recipe used throughout the wold:
Ball Clay - 26%
China Clay - 18%
Quartz - 11%
Barytes - 45%
All […]

OTHER VARIETIES OF EARTHENWARE BODIES

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Parian:
This is the most widely used body in earlier times for making figures. The raw materials used for making this body are China Clay, Ball Clay, Feldspar, Flint Glass. It produces a vitreous body with a marble like sheen which does not glazing.
The China Clay, Ball Clay, Feldspar and Flint Glass are mixed in […]

ON-GLAZE DECORATION

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

The main types of decoration applied on glaze in earthenware products are: Lining and Banding, including Gold Lining, Stamping, Spraying, Lithographing and Silk Screening. In some cases most expensive types of decoration such as ground laying and acid gold edge are also used.
The decorating process is similar to Under-Glaze operations. Gold lining and banding can […]