What is cold china?
In the windows of many souvenir shops you can see a variety of toys, flowers and other items of amazing beauty. They shimmer with bright colors and, importantly, are strong enough with apparent fragility. Virtually all of these products are made of cold porcelain.
This porcelain is an amazing mixture of starch, oil, glue and glycerin, tested in Argentina in the early twentieth century. In the modern world it is used for artistic modeling. This material differs plasticity, smoothness and homogeneity of the structure. In addition, it is absolutely harmless and relatively cheap.
All these characteristics led to the fact that this chinaware is also used by small children who really like that this material does not melt, like plasticine, but, on the contrary, only hardens. Many craftsmen adhere to the traditions and make this material from a mixture of glue, starch, etc. All these ingredients are mixed separately and cooked. Others decide to keep pace with the times and produce cold porcelain from wallpaper adhesives .
How to make cold porcelain from wallpaper glue?
The use of wallpaper glue for the manufacture of cold porcelain can achieve the same result as when using traditional compounds, but it saves considerable time and effort.
Before diluting wallpaper wallpaper with water for porcelain, it is necessary to make sure that it contains modified starch. Usually wallpaper paste is made using cornstarch, so the mass of cold porcelain for modeling is ideally white.
To prepare the mass for modeling, 1 part of wallpaper paste, 1 part of baking soda and water is taken, they are placed in a container and mixed. A container with ingredients is placed on a water bath and cream and glycerin are injected into it, approximately 1/3 of the part. The entire mass is thoroughly mixed until a dense lump forms. Now it is ready for further processing.
The only drawback of this method is the high cost of good wallpaper glue. After all, to get an excellent result, and to ensure that the finished product does not burst, it is desirable to take high-quality wallpaper paste. A quality thing is never worth it cheap. But the way out of this situation is - the ability to make wallpaper glue at home.
Do wallpaper wallpaper glue at home
Before how to make a wallpaper adhesive , another name is a paste, you need to measure the right amount of starch. For preparation it is better to use corn starch, t.the potato later darkens a little.
Water is added to room temperature in starch, and everything is thoroughly mixed to prevent lumps from forming. The starch itself does not dissolve in water of this temperature, the so-called starch suspension must be obtained, i. E.homogeneous starch suspension in water.
After this, it is necessary to pour in the resulting suspension of steep boiling water or vice versa, the mixture itself is poured into a container with boiling water. At the same time, the entire mass must be constantly and thoroughly disturbed. The finished mixture has the consistency of a sufficiently thick jelly and is transparent in appearance.
It is cooled to room temperature, not forgetting to stir occasionally. After cooling, the finished paste is filtered through a sieve, and for this purpose, you can use gauze or kapron stockings, to filter out possible lumps.
This homemade wallpaper paste is perfect for making mass for artistic modeling. It is enough to put in it in a water bath glycerin, cream and PVA, and the excellent cold porcelain is ready.