Dramatic Context
Georgia Brown
Mould Making | History:
Noun: mould A hollow container used to give shape to molten, hot or uncured liquid material when it cools, hardens or cures. Moulds have been around for thousands of years, bronze age spear tip mould. British museum, it all began in athens.
Sand box moulds- important to look at history of mould making. Industrial injection moulding
laminating: fiberglassing or GRP (glass reinforced polyester) creatin specialist suits in industry, boats etc.
matrix moulding: a situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops or is contained. It is used for making cores, prosthetics, animatronics, prosthetic conforming transfer moulds.
Practitioners: James kernot Brian best Barry best The schoonrad family - lifecast.co.uk (good for work experience) life casters! Carl lyon Rob freitas Look at their work and how they work.
The development history of Rotomoulding
"Egyptians who used rotational casting processes for creating ceramics. Moulding processes were used hundreds of years ago by the Swiss to make hollow chocolate eggs. In modern times, somewhere between 1940 and 1950 in the USA, the rotational moulding process was developed for a small number of plastics but its popularity did not take off because it was regarded as a slow process."
Rotational Mouldmaking. D&M Plastics (n/a). [online] Available from: http://www.rotationalmoulding.ca/ [Accessed 20 November 2014]
"The civilizations of ancient Egypt and the Middle East utilized clay for building and domestic use as early a 5000 B.C. By 4000 B.C. , the ancient Egyptians were involved in pottery on a much larger scale. They utilized finer clays and fired the pieces at much higher temperatures in early kilns that removed the pots from the direct fire so they were not blackened from the fire. Bricks from clay were used as building material as well. The ancient Chinese produced black pottery by 3500 B.C. with round bases and plaited decoration. Closer to 1000 B.C. the Chinese used the potter's wheel and developed more sophisticated glazes. Their pottery was often included in funeral ceremonies. In the first millennium B.C. , the Greeks began throwing pots on wheels and creating exquisite forms. Pre-Colombians, ancient Iberians, the ancient Romans (who molded pottery with raised decoration), and the ancient Japanese all created beautiful pottery for domestic use as well as for religious purposes."
Pottery. How pottery is made (2006). [online] Available from: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Pottery.html [Accessed 20 November 2014]