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CUERDA SECA CERAMIC TILES:
EXPLORATIONS OF RESIST FORMULAS IN VARIOUS FIRING RANGES
by
Carla Aubin Sotelo
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Carla Aubin Sotelo
Object Description
| Title | Cuerda seca ceramic tiles: explorations of resist formulas in various firing ranges |
| Author | Sotelo, Carla Aubin |
| Author email | csotelo@usc.edu;carla@bagohemp.com |
| Degree | Master of Historic Preservation |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Historic Preservation |
| School | School of Architecture |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-01-27 |
| Date submitted | 2012-03-27 |
| Date approved | 2012-03-27 |
| Restricted until | 2012-03-27 |
| Date published | 2012-03-27 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Sandmeier, Trudi |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hall, Peyton Koblitz, Karen |
| Abstract | In the 1920s and 1930s, residential and commercial buildings built in the popular Spanish and Moorish inspired designs throughout California were decorated with interior and exterior installations of cuerda seca art tiles. Decades later, replacement of damaged fabric, such as parts of tile schemes, forms a large part of the conservation and preservation ethic. How can preservation transpire if, in preservation, documenting details of aspects such as building conditions, materials, maintenance, etcetera are crucial and information about the materials, such as the cuerda seca resist formulations are unavailable? ❧ The goal of this thesis was replication of the cuerda seca resist using various proprietary formulas, commercially available and mixed based on historic information and empirical research to discover suitable black line resist formulas. Various oils (linseed oil and olive oil), oxides (black iron oxide and manganese dioxide), and fluxes, (lithium carbonate, soda ash, and borax) were tested with appropriate clay bodies and glazes for three firing ranges: cone 06, cone 5 and cone10. In all of the firing ranges tested, successful formulations were found and would be suitable for conservators to use to preserve the cuerda seca art tiles that already exist and for artists to use in order to preserve the cuerda seca tradition. |
| Keyword | cuerda seca; black line resist in ceramics; ceramics resist; ceramic tiles; cuerda seca tiles; tiles |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Sotelo, Carla Aubin |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume3/etd-SoteloCarl-555.pdf |
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| Full text | CUERDA SECA CERAMIC TILES: EXPLORATIONS OF RESIST FORMULAS IN VARIOUS FIRING RANGES by Carla Aubin Sotelo A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION May 2012 Copyright 2012 Carla Aubin Sotelo |
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