THE PICTURE HERE IS JUST A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PRODUCTION, THERE ARE MANY OTHER STEPS IN THE PRODUCTION PROCESS
A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CERAMIC PIGGY BANK PRODUCTION, A LITTLE LONG, BUT AFTER READING IT CAN REDUCE SOME QUESTIONS
We often see such scenes in novels, movies and games, a character hid his lifes treasure in a cave, but isnt the mountain solid? And there are very few natural caves that are just good enough to hide his treasure. Yes, he must have dug a hole somewhere in the mountain, transferred the excavated soil to other places, hid his treasure in the cave, and set up various mechanisms to protect his treasure.
The same goes for ceramic piggy banks. Metaphorically, putting money in a piggy bank can be seen as a scaled-down version of hiding treasure in a cave.
Ceramics, on the other hand, started out as a lump of dirt, solid, as shown in the picture above. Solid, cant save money. If you want to save money, you have to be hollow to put your money in the piggy bank.
So, how do you make a piggy bank with cute shapes?
- The clay can make the shape we want through sculpture and design, but it is still solid at this time and cannot be saved.
- Make the sculpture into a mold
- Stir the soil into mud
- Pour mud into the mold. At this time, the piglet shape we want will be completed
- But dont forget there is such a thing as solid, we want to save money, must be hollow
- The key to the pig needs to dig holes in the four feet, so that mud can flow from the feet, in order to achieve the hollow effect, hollow to save money. But when the finished product is finished, the piggy banks four feet are affixed with spongy pads to prevent friction with the table. So dont rip the spongy pads off the four feet of the piggy bank.
- Let the mud flow out of the four feet of the piggy bank. As we said before, dig the cave, remove the excavated earth, and hide the treasure in the cave. Putting a sponge cushion on it is like putting an organ outside a cave to protect the treasure.
I believe that through the metaphor of digging a cave to hide gold and silver treasure and the description of the production process of piggy bank, we can understand why the four feet of piggy bank have holes in the production process