How to Make a Perfect Flat Tile for Pottery - No Wrinkles, No Cracking, No Kidding!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
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In this episode, we go behind the curtain and into the Little Street Pottery
Research facility where our scientists work every day to bring you the latest in pottery technology. (Yes, these are the same folks who brought you the Pottery Noodle - you're welcome). After years of exhaustive research and millions of Monopoly dollars spent, our technicians have found a way to make the perfect pottery tile! (Well, pretty sure...have you SEEN these guys?) We share this with you because we know you will like and subscribe to our channel.
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I picked the right technique that produced the flattest tile. Thank you Little Street Pottery for conducting these experiments. The results will undoubtably save many potters a lot of time and grief.
Oh good! I am glad you liked the video and always happy to share results :-)
Your videos are always so entertaining. I love your humor and videos, which are always very educational and helpful. Thank you
You are having way too much fun with your video editing. very fun and useful information.
Hi Cookie! Thanks so much. Since we went into quarantine we started making these and it has been a lot of fun.
Another helpful hint:
As warping can occur during firing tiles as well, bisque them upright, like shelved library books, and that helps too!!
Interesting! I’m going to give that a try, thanks for sharing that!
This is possibly the best pottery video I've ever watched!
Thanks Dena! I will pass that on to the staff our research facility, haha :-)
I’ve made tile, and the method that did the best was the one I used. I still had losses, but it’s nice see that I probably couldn’t have done much different.
Oh good! Im sure there are other ways to make the tiles I could try and different clays, but, perhaps that is another video, haha.
Your research facility is so impressive.
Thanks Carol, haha. Our crew is hard at work :-)
Thank you for doing that research and posting your findings! Very helpful!
I live the video. Great fun.
Now... each tile was left on a non porous surface. How about a few layers of newspaper on both the top and bottom of the tile with a second weighted bat on top?
Hi Don. Yes, I thought of that. I had some wallboard but I only had one sheet and thought wallboard on only one side instead of both sides would have scewed the results. I had plenty of bats so I just went with that instead and let them dry slowly.
Brilliant production!
Very slick and amusing video, with extremely useful info on it. More please.
We’ve got 102 vids...enjoy! Thanks for watching!
Very clever!
Best video, thank you so much I learned more than in every class with all these examples! I am gonna use the best method with weight on them, fantastic
Glad it was helpful!
i like resting on newspaper allows bottom to draw off moisture for a more even tile
Love the video and the experiment!
Can you do a second episode that shows how each of them has reacted to glaze fire?
One more question: can we try method 4 but following the texturizing of the back to allow for tile cement/glue gripping? I wonder if different scoring methods may impact the tile remaining flat.
Well done - looking forward to more content!!
L R thanks for your comment. We may try your suggestion and incorporate in a future video. At the moment however we are working on a cure for COVID and our scientists are completely swamped. Some exciting news, we recently discovered a treatment for CBS (COVID Boredom Syndrome) that requires hands handling clay for several hours per day. This treatment has proven 100% successful in raising people’s spirits and in some cases improved hair growth. Thanks again for your idea, we will be sure to consider it when we film The Perfect Tile II, The Return of the Son of Warpy the Tile. Keep the feedback coming!
@@LittleStreetPottery Pottery this year has done wonders for me (though not a thing for my hair). And the tile video is the cure to a very thorny issue that we've been facing.
So helpful, and appreciate your sense of humor 😁
Thanks for this great video! I took your bird painting course on Vimeo and I have been really struggling to make flat tiles to practice on. Excited to try this method out!
Thanks, hope you enjoyed the painting course! Let us know how your tiles come out!
awesome video peeps ... i was engaged till the end and excited to used method 4 for my new projects :) woowoo
love these
Thanks Dorothy! Jim and I appreciate that!!!
Great video! I wonder what would've happened if a test were included where tile is put on porous surface to dry? Or between two porous surfaces...
I would have liked to try that too, but I only had one piece of wallboard and thought that I would have needed one on the bottom and one on the top to get a good result. I had plenty of bats so I went with that. Perhaps when I can go out and get more wallboard cut I will have to make another video, right. Good idea!
this is great! getting ready to make 10,000 and freaking out a bit
Wow! Good luck!
Thaaaaanks! 💜
This was incredibly helpful! If you are using a slab roller instead of a rolling pin, how would you change test #4?
LOVE LOVE LOVE this!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣❤️
Such a great video!! I loved your research. I wanted to ask if you recomend to make some texture on the back side of the tile to fits it better to the wall and if you made the bisque fire placing them standing up. thank you!!
I dont make a lot of tiles and have not tied adding texture to the back but dont see any problem with that. Some people do fire tiles standing up but I have not personally tried that - I have fired mine flat.
I emphatically disagree that the music was annoying. It set a cool, yet humorous tone. This video was extremely helpful. However, I plan to make some relief tiles. My question is, how to keep the tiles flat in between sessions of carving on leather hard clay. If I put a bat with weight, it could flatten the relief parts of the design.
Always a challenge - I would be sure to dry them VERY slowly...good luck!
Super!!
I like the video pretty darn cute!
Thanks Linda! i am glad you liked that. JIm is so clever with his videos. You should check out some of the others on our channel. They will give you a few laughs. :-)
Did you use porcelain clay for this test? Do you think I would get the same results with B-mix with grog? I want to make tiles for the kitchen backsplash area and I would like advice on what clay to use for them.
Yep..porcelain...I would assume similar results with most clays. Thanks
Thank you for the video love it I wanna ask how many tiles can I get from one kilogram of porcelain clay
I honestly dont know - depends on tile size, type of clay, shrinkage factor etc....If i had to guess with my porcelain I could probably get 8-10 out of a kilo. (2.2 lbs)
thanks a lot this was very helpful ☺ @@LittleStreetPottery
I have been working on my tiles... but I have been using a "baking cooling rack" and covering with a plastic bag. So far flat.
Cool idea! Thanks!
Can you use regular clay instead of porcelain? Would this work for a shower tile?
I think most bathroom tiles are porcelain but yes, the same principals should apply to most clay. Thanks.
Any tips for the same thing but on a plate with a rim
We were just talking about plates the other day - stay tuned, we may have something in the near future!
Hi! I wanted to ask what kind of weight should I use for the best method. I saw you used another bat?
Anything flat like a bat that is non-porous
@@LittleStreetPottery Thanks!!
I am using a method similar to that of #4, but I have been having trouble with the clay sticking to every surface. When I try to flip the tile over it sticks to the bat and does not want to release. Even using corn starch does not seem to help a lot. Any ideas?
Could be the type of clay (I use porcelain) and/or your clay may be too wet (that happens to me too when its overly wet). You also may want to try a different bat surface as well - some of my bats are stickier than others. Good luck!
Hmmm I think it would take an awfully long time to dry between bats. And how would you advise doing SEVERAL tiles?
They make these GIANT bats...sorry. Some folks use planks of wood (6’ to 8’ long)...you can also buy wood pieces from Lowe’s etc that are 4’ x 4’ square that can work.
Air dry clay ?
Good idea - stay tuned, we're going to do one on air dry in the near future!
Why do you need to do ribbing?
A little compression helps keep the clay consistent and can help prevent cracking. Thanks!
annoying music
Bogus content. Not possible in mass production. Seems have no idea about tiles.
music and sound effects made it ETREAMLY hard to watch the video
Thanks for the feedback!
Then turn off the sound. 🙃 And the word you typed in all caps is spelled "extremely." You're welcome.