Slip is clay that has more water added so it is liquid or a wet paste. It has many uses in pottery. Sometimes it has frit in it. Sometimes a deflocculant is used too. Sometimes it is called engobe (mainly in British books). Most Americans use the terms as the same. Some older books call slip with colorant for decoration "engobe" and slip for casting "slip"
Slip is a mixture of clay and water. It is used like glue to hold pieces of clay together.
I think what you are talking about is "slip". Slip is clay in a liquid form. I have commonly used it for attaching pieces of clay.
If you have two pieces of clay that you want to connect, you score the clay. Scoring is scratching both pieces of clay where you want them to connect. Slip is watered down clay, and acts as glue when placed on the scored clay.
Joining slip.
I would make the clay into slip and roll it out. Get a cookie cutter in the shape of a star and press it into the clay.
Slip is a mixture of clay and water. It is used like glue to hold pieces of clay together.
Slip is clay mixed with lost of water and is used after scoring clay to hold two pieces of clay together.
I think what you are talking about is "slip". Slip is clay in a liquid form. I have commonly used it for attaching pieces of clay.
Casting Slip: A liquid clay used in the process of forming objects with molds. Also referred to as "slip."
If you have two pieces of clay that you want to connect, you score the clay. Scoring is scratching both pieces of clay where you want them to connect. Slip is watered down clay, and acts as glue when placed on the scored clay.
Joining slip.
I would make the clay into slip and roll it out. Get a cookie cutter in the shape of a star and press it into the clay.
Slip is simply clay mixed with enough water to make it a thick liquid. Usually potters use colored slip to decorate and/or texture pieces. Slip is also used as a glue to attach handles or mend broken pieces before they are fired. Slip can also be used to mold clay. Plaster molds are used which are assembled and clamped together and then the slip is poured in. As the water is absorbed into the plaster, a shell of clay is deposited on the inside of the mold. When the shell is thick enough, the remaining slip is poured out and the casting allowed to dry to a leatherhard stage. At this stage, the mold is taken apart and the casting is trimmed and finished.
establishments primarily engaged in mining, milling, or otherwise preparing kaolin or ball clay, including china clay, paper clay, and slip clay.
It probably depends on what kind of clay you're using but when I did pottery in high school we made "slip" which was just basically very watered down clay. Then we scratched up the two slabs where we wanted them to join, put a coat of slip over the rough edges, and pushed them together.
Use a fork, plastic or otherwise, and scratch/score the surfaces of the clay parts you intend to join. Then, use your slip, which is just clay that is soaked in water and therefore like mud, over the same surfaces which you have scored. Join the pieces together by pressing the scored and slipped surfaces together.
pick up any clay off the floor so that people don't slip