{"id":11455,"date":"2025-02-19T08:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T08:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/kennisbank\/designing-shaping-and-modeling-wet-clay\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:02:42","slug":"designing-shaping-and-modeling-wet-clay","status":"publish","type":"kennisbank","link":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/knowledge-base\/designing-shaping-and-modeling-wet-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing, shaping and modeling wet clay."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Designing, shaping and modeling the wet clay.<\/h2>\n

Design and model your jewelry.<\/h3>\n

Do keep in mind the shrinkage of the product. The shrinkage of clay types differ from each other. <\/p>\n

The Knowledge Base describes the shrinkage for each clay type.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Working with metal clay is the same way as working with regular clay.<\/h3>\n

There are various methods and materials for shaping and texturing the clay. For example <\/p>\n

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    Mold and knead with your hands. .<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    With a clay roller, pressure plate, needle tool, blades, lomers, spatulas<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Stencils, cutters and molds can be used to make all kinds of shapes.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    With textured rubber mats, textured wallpaper, things from nature, you can give the clay texture<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Special ring tools can be used to model rings.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    With brushes, water brush and damp baby wipes it is possible to finish the jewelry perfectly smooth.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    If small bumps or cracks are still visible they can be repaired with spray clay<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    With spray clay or paste, it is also possible to attach individual parts together.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    With spray clay, all kinds of relief can be applied to jewelry. .<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    We have several starter packages available with various tools and supplies. From a simple basic package to very complete comprehensive starter packages. <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":11456,"parent":0,"template":"","kennisbank-taxonomy":[6336],"class_list":["post-11455","kennisbank","type-kennisbank","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kennisbank-taxonomy-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kennisbank\/11455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kennisbank"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kennisbank"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kennisbank-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esquell.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kennisbank-taxonomy?post=11455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}