This doll is going in for a high temperature firing, which is when porcelain slip vitrifies into glass and shrinks 20%.
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Wet Cleaning
Wet cleaning a soft-fired porcelain doll head. It's as fragile as an egg shell in this stage.
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Cleaning porclain doll parts during a snowstorm
Read MorePouring Porcelain
Pouring porcelain slip into plaster molds.
Read MoreWork on the new doll continues
At this stage of the process the porcelain is in a very fragile and soft state called Bisque
Read MoreThis Always Happens...
I don’t know how this always happens! I start out thinking that I’ll just sew on a few little pearls here and there for small accents...but then somehow it’s hundreds of pearls and hours later, and I’m still doing it!