My cross comes from my identity and manifested itself in these brooches made from fired glazed ceramic clay and paper does anyone want to know how they were made? 
see below for further details.
Firstly learn to slice white clay as thin as you can rolling it out makes it curl.
While base between 2 &4mm thick is still damp dip your materials in a mixture of a quarter recycled white paper shredded and mixed with 3 quarters white clay
Dry for several days
Bisque at 1100 degrees
glaze with clear ceramic glaze
Dries in an hour or two
Refire 15 hours at 1200 degrees
transformation !
Not finished yetSmoth base on diamond stone grinder. It's very hard even though brittle
I used sandblasting to grind out even indents to adhere the little silver fittings I cut and soldered for brooch pins
two part epoxy glue took 3 days to set but not one out 10 pulled out when I put in brooch pin backs even double ones and that's a great test.
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