Original do-it-yourself dishes
Handmade crockery is expensive, but don’t be upset. A colorful porcelain slide for sweets, fruits or cakes can be easily assembled with your own hands! We offer you a master class on creating an attractive serving item.
Sometimes a piece of furniture you like is out of reach. It may be out of production, out of stock, or cost too much. Our designer suggests not to get upset, but to reproduce the desired accessory with your own hands.
The porcelain slide, which our designer liked so much, can no longer be found on sale – the table setting item included in the limited batch has long acquired owners. This caused a creative desire to make a similar pyramid for fruits with your own hands. By the way, not a single porcelain plate was damaged during its construction!
Inspiration: Trésors de grand-mère shelf vase Manufacturer: Bernardaud (France) Designer: Vika Mitrichenka, 2007
porcelain slide: master class
For work you will need:
– earthenware dishes for various purposes,
– plastic fruits,
– M8 hairpin (threaded metal rod),
– nuts М8,
– drill for ceramics 8,3 mm,
– electric drill, hacksaw, rolling pin,
– paints for ceramics, brush, polymer clay.
porcelain slide: master class
A hole is drilled in the center of each item (earthenware plate, gravy boat, cup or plastic fruit).
porcelain slide: master class
A piece 0,5 m long is cut from a metal hairpin using a hacksaw. This will be a rod onto which we will string the details of our “slide” in the future.
porcelain slide: master class
Then, using a rolling pin, roll out the clay mass.
porcelain slide: master class
The resulting layer is divided into squares of the desired size.
5. We bake clay cylinders
porcelain slide: master class
Square clay blanks are rolled into cylinders, which are baked in the oven.
porcelain slide: master class
After that, the cylinders are tinted in different colors using ceramic paint and thin brushes.
porcelain slide: master class
A nut is screwed onto the stud, then a plate, and then a nut again. The hardware will hold the dishes in position and will not allow them to move.
8. In random order, string the parts
porcelain slide: master class
Earthenware dishes, clay cylinders, plastic fruits are strung on a metal rod in random order, not forgetting to fix each item with a pair of nuts.
porcelain slide: master class
The shelf is ready!
Now let’s turn the tea set into a lamp!
material prepared by Marina Shvechkova