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Plainsman Clays have been in business for 40 years mining and testing many of their own raw materials for the production of the finest quality prepared clays available.


An aerial view of Plainsman Clays manufacturing facility, Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Plainsman, Laguna and Tucker clays discount with quantity purchased.
Price breaks occur at 3, 10, 20, 40 and 80 cartons and can be combined for your best price.
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Packaged in 20 kilogram cartons.
Buffstone
Smooth medium plastic body with good drying characteristics. Talc free clay that fires a light buff colour.

Price: $19.50
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Terrastone
Native terracotta body with medium plasticity. Smooth texture and strong when fired. Fires to a warm terracotta colour.

Price: $20.75
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L210
Natural iron body with medium plasticity. Smooth talc free clay that fires light red.

Price: $20.10
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L211
Low plasticity, low shrinkage body with good drying characteristics. Smooth texture and fires an off-white buff colour.

Price: $23.70
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L212
Low temperature, smooth, medium plastic, light cream to grey buff burning, refined talc earthenware.

Price: $25.65
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L213
Whitest firing of all low temperature bodies letting glazes be their brightest. Smooth, plastic and high in talc.

Price: $28.20
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L215
Terracotta firing body with good strength. Medium plasticity and slightly coarse clay that fits glazes well.

Price: $22.10
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Majolica
Developed for the 'majolica' process. Smooth feel to this plastic terracotta firing body.

Price: $21.30
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Raku
Plastic throwing and handbuilding body made for the raku process. Fires off-white buff.

Price: $26.00
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M325
General purpose lightly grogged body with good drying properties. Medium plastic and fires yellow-buff in colour.

Price: $19.40
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M332
High plasticity and sand in this body make it suitable for large handbuilding. Fires a warm medium red brown colour.

Price: $20.00
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M332G
More red burning than M332 with the addition of fine grog and bentonite. Medium plastic with low drying shrinkage.

Price: $20.90
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M340
Very smooth and plastic. The best selling mid temperature clay. Well suited to throwing. Fires yellow-buff in colour.

Price: $19.70
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M340GS
Same as M340 with fine grog to give texture and manganese to give a brown speckle in oxidation firing.

Price: $20.85
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M350
Very smooth clay with medium plasticity. Similar to M340 but fires a leather brown colour.

Price: $20.10
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M370
Whitest firing of all mid temp bodies. More plastic than porcelains but semi-vitreous to promote stability in the kiln.

Price: $31.55
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M390
Very plastic high iron clay body. Smooth in texture, it is the darkest firing of the medium temperature red bodies.

Price: $20.45
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P300
The addition of bentonite makes this porcelain off-white but gives it better working characteristics than true porcelains.

Price: $29.15
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P380
Buff-white coloured porcelain that has good plasticity and drying properties due to the addition of ball clay.

Price: $28.65
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H435
Moderately sandy texture and stoney grey colour when fired in reduction. Low in shrinkage with good plasticity.

Price: $19.70
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