the transfer of a printed design from paper to fabric, using heat/pressure/steam.
Realistic scenes--as on historical blue pottery--etched into a copper plate, inked, transferred onto delicate tissue paper, then likewise transferred onto the pot to be fired, in effect, a version of offset printing. Complex shapes like teapots will sometimes show fold lines where, in order to wrap the tissue transfer into contact with the contour of the object, creases in the tissue resulted.
A semi-mechanical method of decoration by which a design was "transferred" from an engraved copperplate to an already fired ceramic article by means of a flexible material, such as specially prepared paper tissues.
Before the development of transfer printing in the 1750s, all china was decorated by hand. Transfer printing enabled decoration to be industrialized, though semi-skilled handwork was still involved. A copper engraving was inked with metallic inks, and the design transferred to the piece by a sheet of tissue paper. Firing fixed the design to the chinaware and simultaneously burned off the paper. Transfer printing was an easy process on flatware, such as plates and chargers, but on hollowware it was impossible to fit the transfers exactly, and the edges of the sheets can always be seen.
Using a special paper with a coating to transfer a design printed by an ink jet printer or color copier to a fabric. The design is applied with a hot iron or a heat press.
Also known as decals or decalmania. A British potter named Josiah Wedgewood revolutionized the ceramics and printing industries in the 17th century. He hired the printers Saddler and Green to print detailed lithographic images that would be transfered to the surface of domectic dinnerware. Images were drawn on lithographic limestone. The images were printed on specially coated paper. The paper was soaked in water and the image slid off onto the dinnerware.
Method of decoration where a pattern or picture is printed onto the gelatin coating of paper and then, when wet, is slid onto the surface of a pot. The gelatin can be sensitized with silver halide allowing the same process to be used photographically.
a technique for using a paper transfer to impose a pattern on ceramics
