This clay body works well for throwing and hand building small to medium sized pieces.
Ceramics brown body.
A mid or high firing coarse grained clay body that can be anywhere between buff color to gray to dark brown because of varying levels of iron and other impurities.
Under clear glazes iron containing clay bodies can show a very similar range of colors.
Iron s natural presence in most clay bodies produces clay colors ranging from light gray to deepest brown.
Our tiles are fired at the same temperature and glazed just like porcelain.
It is incredibly durable after firing with little to no absorption vitreous.
We carry just about every clay offered by standard ceramic supply one of the biggest most reliable go to brands in the world of commercial clays from low fire to high fire and everything in between including wood fire bodies flameware and more standard ceramic supply has a clay for you and we carry it.
Through the ingredients list instructions and descriptions the recipes will also tell you whether the clay body will be groggy or smooth a solid even.
Grog can be added to created larger pieces.
Durabody ceramic tiles are made to last a lifetime while looking like the day they were installed.
Gives nice warmth to glazes giving that reduction look to them in oxidation.
Not many potters would challenge iron s place as the most important of the ceramic colorants.
The descriptions and instructions in each recipe will help you to determine if a clay body will be good for sculptural approaches hand building slip casting or wheel throwing techniques.
Temper consists of varied volcanic inclusions occurring naturally in the clay.
That s a lifetime of muddy paws stomping children cold snaps and everything else life can throw at it.
For best results fire slow.
A nice super smooth plastic body that fires a dark chocolate brown at cones 5 6.