{"id":3645,"date":"2019-04-15T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2019-04-15T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:20:00","slug":"leaf-block-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/leaf-block-mold\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaf block mold for hand-pressed red terracotta"},"content":{"rendered":"

I decided to make a mold of one of these ca 1880 leaf blocks that came from a frieze band on a mansion in Newark NJ that was demolished. It’s a nice little design and it will be quick and easy to make these in red terracotta like the original.<\/p>\n

Now it will have to dry out for a couple of weeks before I can use it.
\nThis is exactly what they used in ca 1880 to make the originals, though it was about 5-10% larger.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The design could be a styled boxelder tree leaf, there’s not a lot of trees that have leaves like the terracotta block has, but there are a few, of which the boxelder appears to be most similar;<\/p>\n

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I decided to make a mold of one of these ca 1880 leaf blocks that came from a frieze band on a mansion in Newark NJ that was demolished. It’s a nice little design and it will be quick and easy to make these in red terracotta like the original. Now it will have to dry out for a couple of weeks before I can use it. This is exactly what they used in ca 1880 to make the originals, though it was about 5-10% larger.   The design could be a styled boxelder tree leaf, there’s not a lot of trees that have leaves like the terracotta block has, but there are a few, of which the boxelder appears to be most similar;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,52,55,69],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures","tag-architectural-terracotta","tag-midland-terracotta","tag-museum-quality-terracotta","tag-terracotta-leaf-block"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}