Last week I tried a little Pate De Verre – and I did admit it wasn’t my most favourite technique…. but today I found myself wanting to have another go.
First I made a couple of moulds.
The first dish was made using a wax cast from a silicon mould.
The second piece I wanted to be a cone shape to represent a Moroccan sugar cone, so I hand built a cone shape out of clay.
Once I had the wax and the clay I made a plaster mould around them. Using the recipe 1lb each of plaster and molochite to 1.5 pints of water.
Once the moulds were dry, I melted the wax out of one, and
dug the clay out of the other.
Then I mixed frit glass with a mix of 50/50 glasstac and water into a thick paste.
I pressed this into the moulds, then packed them with a pre-fired plaster powder so the glass didn’t collapse back into the middle.
Then off to the kiln to be
fired at 765 degrees for an hour.
Quite happy with the results of these…
A very untactile little dish
and a white cone that actually does look like sugar!
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