hi I'm Becky Stern and then bringing to
you the first installment of our weekly
column asked craft where I answer your
crafty questions the first one is from
poly in New Jersey and poly rights I'm
working on an installation project as
part of a ceramics residency and I want
to stencil or silkscreen the ingredients
of a recipe on individual vintage china
dishes I've seen work on vintage dishes
on etsy and described as a heat fused
ceramic paint non-toxic and food safe
and I'm interested in finding a way to
apply the text without having to use a
kiln but I can't find anything about
this heat fused ceramic paint do you
have any advice well I'm no ceramics
expert but my friend Jana is choose a
ceramics artist and she helped me out
and wrote that heat use paint sounds
like China p these are available at most
ceramic supply stores they require a
kiln but it's very low temperature Jana
was worried about the vintage dishes
because you don't know what temperature
there glazes were fired at and they
might melt if you put them in a kiln at
a really high temperature so she
recommends using a cone 0406 glaze if
you're going to use a kiln she also
recommends asking your local paint your
own pottery store if you can rent time
on their kiln a lot of these businesses
are really hurting right now so if you
can find anyone with a kiln look on
craigslist maybe two they'd probably be
happy to rent you one jenna says this is
basically the only way to get your
dishes to be food safe but she also
recommends using a ceramic decal from
easy ceramic decals calm and she says
it's a great option because Polly could
duplicate the recipe on a series of our
series of recipes easily at a variety of
sizes and you need to kill but it would
be easier to reproduce your image so I
hope that helped Holly ok next up is a
question from theory in Ohio she says
here's my dilemma if I find a project in
a book and make it for myself or my
friend that's ok but can I make the
project with some adjustments and sell
it at a craft fair well this is really
tricky
copyright issue basically if you learn a
technique from a book like how to
crochet or how to attach bottle caps
together to make a trivet it's okay to
make whatever you to sell whatever you
make at a craft fair but if you see a
sweater pattern in a book and you make
that sweater pattern and sell it at a
craft fair you may be violating the
author's copyright so when in doubt
check with the publisher but basically
if it's technique oriented you're okay
if it's copying an exact pattern it's
not okay okay that's it for our video
installment I hope to check back with
you guys next week in our new series
asked craft thanks