Introduction to vinyl What do you hear when you hear to word vinyl? Do you think of those old records that would play music on a spinning platform with a needle; well you're wrong. Vinyl is just a fancy word for sticker, but it’s not a sticker. Unlike stickers vinyl will stick to a surface for a very long time if you take care of it. Also a sticker is made out of paper with a sticky adhesive and can be remove. Removing a stick involves a lot more work that vinyl. You have to peel it off but now there is this sticky stuff on the wall, mirror, door, etc. So now you have to grab some cleaner and scrub it off. Vinyl does that too but not a bad. You can usually remove them with ease unless they're like 5 years old. Vinyl decals aren’t just easy
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The way it figured this out was ingenious. He would start with engraving a copper plate so that under glaze could fill the shape. Then he heats it up and puts a certain type of tissue paper on it. After you wait for a certain amount of time and it has to be precise. The color then would adhere to the paper, so he could pell it off. Now he carefully puts the the tissue onto the glassware or bisque. The glassware or bisque has to have a tacky varnish in order from the image to stick. Lastly it's time to bake. This part is important cause if you leave it into long or if the temperature of the furnaces is not right, you could burn in off. The process itself is very challenging. You have to make sure you get everything right cause if you don’t you’ll just cause a big …show more content…
First let us start with Henri Fourdriner. This man made one of the first ever paper making machine. It made making paper for the vinyl a lot easier. Even Though rubber bats were made, tissue paper was still used to get the design off. Two people named the Pratt Brothers m ade a way to print more than one color on the tissue paper. This meant that they could save on tissue paper even more. Lastly a machine named a lithograph was invented. This machine was gigantic, using 2 by 3, 6 inch wide limestone printing plates. The plates would stick a tacky varnish on the paper, which then would put dry color on. All was left to do was to take the paper put it on the ceramic, wet it down, then fire it. It made the process of making decals a lot
The way it figured this out was ingenious. He would start with engraving a copper plate so that under glaze could fill the shape. Then he heats it up and puts a certain type of tissue paper on it. After you wait for a certain amount of time and it has to be precise. The color then would adhere to the paper, so he could pell it off. Now he carefully puts the the tissue onto the glassware or bisque. The glassware or bisque has to have a tacky varnish in order from the image to stick. Lastly it's time to bake. This part is important cause if you leave it into long or if the temperature of the furnaces is not right, you could burn in off. The process itself is very challenging. You have to make sure you get everything right cause if you don’t you’ll just cause a big …show more content…
First let us start with Henri Fourdriner. This man made one of the first ever paper making machine. It made making paper for the vinyl a lot easier. Even Though rubber bats were made, tissue paper was still used to get the design off. Two people named the Pratt Brothers m ade a way to print more than one color on the tissue paper. This meant that they could save on tissue paper even more. Lastly a machine named a lithograph was invented. This machine was gigantic, using 2 by 3, 6 inch wide limestone printing plates. The plates would stick a tacky varnish on the paper, which then would put dry color on. All was left to do was to take the paper put it on the ceramic, wet it down, then fire it. It made the process of making decals a lot