©2012 P'Clay® and P'Slip® / US Patent Number 5,726,111. Because there are variables beyond my control (selections clays, papers, water, mixing errors and etc) always pre test samples and use at your own risk.
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Spring 2012
Rosette Gault and Paperclaylab
Display at Sea Tac Airport Concourse A Gate One Spring
2011 Report
An Artists Vision:
The Potential for Recycled Ceramic Paperclay as a Porous Material for Water Filtration in Developing Regions
30 page illustrated PDF document available in English
this report is serialized smaller parts in the international journal
Ceramics Art and Perception: Technical 2011 and 2012
paperclaylab
Artists Incubator for Early Stage Research and Development
Integrated Technologies and Vision
Sustainable Product and Material Design
Systems of Manufacture
Let's Stay in Touch
Below are some Micrographs from Rosette Gault books.
MicrographA: SEM of Rosette Gault sample of ceramic paperclay unfired but air dried and hardened. The individual open ended hollow cellulose fibers dispersed in clay disperse water (when wet) and air (when dry) through the mass. I have been sharing these images since 1993- before nano techologies alllowed us to consider the value that the rough looking exterior of each tapered hollow cellulose fiber is in fact also loaded with nano fibers. Rad more about my vision for these nano fibers in my books or in the article available for download.
Larger versions of these images are reproduced in Rosette Gault articles (1993, 1994, 1996 and later years.
Micrograph B: kiln fired 700C low temperature porous state paperclay of Rosette Gault sample similar to above. The long stringlike voids remain where the paper fibers once were. Much clay still remains, even though the sample was my high pulp preferred sculptors balanced high performance recipe.
All above of Rosette Gault samples courtesy David Kingery, Univ of Arizona Materials Science Lab 1992-1993 and presented to NCECA National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, Conference Demonstration March 1993 in San Diego. Professor Kingery performed materials analysis tests on my samples also. (1993) Results were widely published. We are all most grateful to his generous contribution that offered some hard science to my discoveries.
My radical construction methods and teaching had been unknown and therefore had to be proven throughout the world independently before anyone could see the full value of my recipes. I was awarded US Patent for my discovery. The award required an extensive world wide search for prior discovery of certain recipes of cellulose bearing ceramic clay (that could use recyled paper) that offer high performance properties that exceed those of traditional clay (green strength, thermal shock, adhesive and adhesion ot both dry and fired ware with greenware, fast drying and firing, and more). Although I was eligible for world patent then, the legal fees involved in extending the realm of my patent worldwide had been beyond my means at the time My published and in person teaching opened the door and have a root source of all the paperclay varieties artists use in the world today.
