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Eugene Hill

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Aug 3, 2024, 12:13:12 PM8/3/24

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I was surprised to read a conversation online about an issue with kato liquid clay surface going sticky/tacky/oily over time. Surprised because it was the first I had ever heard of this happening and I had never seen it on any of my pieces (and I have lots of them). Luckily a friend of mine, Dani from The Whimsical Bead, sent me some of my own pieces which had been purchased a couple of years prior so I could see for myself.

I decided to go searching through my gigantic stash of work to find more pieces that may be affected. I ended up finding some small sample squares which had been painted with glass paint and then a coating of kato liquid clay (again the liquid clay was cured with a heat gun). These squares had been stored in a plastic, clear sheet protector and have been there for about 4 years.

I contacted Van Aken International who manufacture the product. I contacted Donna Kato who obviously has used the product extensively. I spoke to numerous instructors who use the product in both live classes and written tutorials. I asked online for those who had experienced issues regarding the oiliness to contact me and I spoke to many people in the general polymer clay community about this issue.

I know from speaking to many members in our polymer community, under curing is an issue. Perhaps fear of burning and ruining your piece could be a reason why many people under cure their liquid clay. This could have an effect on the long term outcome of your work. I also know there are those who simply use too much liquid clay which then in turn takes forever to cure so the risk of removing the heat gun prior to fully curing is highly likely.

thank you so much for research on kato liquid clay , i really enjoyed read it. i have a question about how you did your veneer , how do you get the image tranfer get so clear and bright ? secondly how do you get your colors so bright ? do you have a pdf on how to do your beads?

Daniela Kato is a writer, speaker, facilitator and storyteller with an academic background in the environmental humanities and training in ecotherapy. She was born and raised in Portugal, and has been based in Japan since 2007. After more than a decade of teaching environmental literature and film in academia, in 2021 she moved to a small village in northern Yamanashi, where she currently works on creative projects of rural revitalisation that weave together ecotherapy practice, the local folklore and landscape, crafts and foraging in community. She is also a guest tutor in ecotherapy at Tariki Trust, UK. Her writing and teaching focus on cross-fertilisations between folklore and mythology, the environmental imagination and creative practices of place-making, with an emphasis on Japan and East Asia. You can follow @daniela_kato on Instagram.

Kato Moving & Storage is the culmination of three landmark Mankato companies with roots back to the 19th century: Deike Transfer, Jessups Storage & Kato Transfer. Mayflower Transit was founded by Conrad M. Gentry and Don F. Kenworthy in 1927.