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How is blue and white porcelain made?

1. Taolian tire soil. Porcelain is made of porcelain clay, that is, kaolin. Natural porcelain clay contains a lot of impurities, and most of it needs to be washed out, so that the porcelain burned in the future will be thin and white.

2. Embryo manufacturing. The process of making washed porcelain clay into various shapes and drying it.

3. painting. After drying, draw a pattern on the surface of the device with blue and white materials.

Step 4 cover with glaze. Generally, a layer of glaze water is covered on the porcelain blank by gluing, brushing, dipping and blowing.

It's on fire. After the glazed porcelain blank is fired at high temperature, the blue and white material under the glaze presents a beautiful blue color. If the blue and white materials are not glazed, the pattern of the porcelain after firing will appear brown instead of blue.