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Making ceramic dinner plates set could be a great project for beginners. After little practice. it has become a routine to roll out an even clay slab on piece of canvas with the use of rolling pin til it reaches quarter to half an inch thickness. Lift the slab gently from the canvas then let it sit til it stiffens into a firmness like that of a soft leather. It should bend but not crack and firm enough to not take prints from our fingers. If your bowl or plate is to have a base, form it from coils or balls of clay which are formed by either the hand or a hand extruder. The base will be attached to the plate or bowl’s bottom with slip. You can then start painting or drawing in it using a liquid underglaze or underglaze paint, ink, pencil or crayons.

Making bowls and dinner plates is easy with the use of hump molds and drape molds. They differ in a way that drape molds are shallow convex surfaces from which clay slabs can be formed into the bowl or plate shape. These hump and drape molds come in a variety of depth, sizes and shapes.

The website of american art clay company is a great source for supplies and materials you need in making pots. The Company is a successful business in Indiana. AMACO/Brent is where you need to go when looking for a complete line of slump molds, drape molds, hump molds and textured slab molds.