Slip Casting at the Emma Bridgewater factory in Stoke-On-Trent, England

The clay that is used to make your favourite pieces of Emma Bridgewater pottery will have travelled from Wales, Cornwall and Staffordshire.
It is mixed up in huge quantities in the factory, in a machine rather like a giant food processor, and the slip casting technique that is used to create our beautiful shapes is time consuming and complicated.
Bigger shapes take longer to cast than the smaller shapes, so casting a teapot is a more time consuming process than casting a baby mug, for example. Click on the link to our video opposite and watch the process by which we produce those special personalised pieces.
And dont forget that you can come and visit us in our factory in Stoke on Trent all year round. It makes a great day out for children and grown-ups, and wed love to see you. Visit us at www.emmabridgewater.co.uk for more information.

[@user-fe8el4hx4n]

As an apprentice working on Hammersley's in Longton I used to make 100 dozen cup bodies a day , mix of 3 part and single part moulds. Ofc we were piece work. 6 months on then 6 months learning fancies like strawberry baskets and pomanders etc. A hard heavy job at times when your bench is full of soup tureens and coffee pots.

[@ChrisMum]

I do a lot of slip casting and firing......but what surprises me about this video is how they can just "flip" open the mould whilst the banding strap is still on it. My bands are a lot tighter than theirs and must be removed from the mould before I can open my moulds and remove the castings.

[@alexa.davronov1537]

But what the slip is made of?
Looks like that emulsifier or something like is used heavily.

[@cheriemoulang2413]

Thank you have been trying to explain this to friends for ages well done

[@skimlines]

You still have to fire the pieces after they have dried with slip casting. The benefit of slip casting compared to hand-building or wheel throwing is that you can get the same shape every time. Also, it is easy to teach someone how to pour and wait for a cast, so you can outsource it to someone else.

[@R3troZone]

That and the speed. One person can spend a day making one piece with clay on a spinning wheel, or making a dozen pieces with multiple molds and some slip.

[@AuntieHauntieGames]

Of course!

[@BernieRowen]

A really interesting video. To niksag300, no, slip cast clay is still fired in a kiln to make the clay vitreous..so that liquid can go into it. Otherwise it will become liquid clay, like mud again.

[@sharonbrammeld9082]

so you have worked in a potbank in stoke on trent

[@guslingus]

Nice,,,

[@zurikoantadze5724]

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[@user-nw2nv9te1x]

What is the name of this material in which the pottery is immersed
Can it be manufactured at home?

[@sharonbrammeld9082]

worked then in the warehouse hate it