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| Alberta Slip Clay A self glazing iron bearing clay used as a substitute for albany slip. Can be used on greenware or bisque, and will become glossy in the cone 4 to 11 range. Often used as a glaze ingredient for effects.
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| Ball Clay, Champion & Challenger (C&C) Considered by some as a stoneware clay, it fires very white and is used in white firing porcelains and stoneware for its excellent plasticity.
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| Ball Clay, Foundry Hill Creme Foundry Hill Creme is a smooth, dense, plastic stoneware clay. It is rather dark in the wet state, but fires to a nice yellow color at cone 10.
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| Ball Clay, Kentucky OM4 A very plastic secondary clay used in many glazes and clay bodies.
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| Ball Clay, Tennessee No.1 A very plastic secondary clay used in both glaze and clay recipes.
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| Barnard Blackbird Clay An iron saturated self glazing slip. Used as a colourant in glazes and clay bodies. For use in the cone 4 to 10 range. Fires dark brown.
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| Fireclay, Goldart An air-floated plastic fireclay that fires a light tan colour. Used in many stoneware recipes.
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| Fireclay, Greenstripe A medium-fine ground fireclay. A good choice for economy and consistency. It burns yellow buff in oxidation and quite brown in reduction firing.
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| Fireclay, Hawthorn Bond A popular buff firing plastic Missouri fireclay of fine particle size. It fires a light colour with approximately 10% shrinkage at cone 10. Ground to 35 mesh.
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| Fireclay, Plainsman A buff firing, medium plasticity, slightly toothed fireclay. Ideally suited as a refractory agent to reduce body maturity, yet not adversely affect its working and drying properties, or overly darken its fired colour.
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| Grog, Fine 35 mesh to fine. A hard, fired kaolin clay which is crushed to various mesh sizes and added to throwing and sculpture bodies to increase working strength and to reduce shrinkage. Also aids in drying for larger pieces of unusual thickness. Gray-white colour.
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| Grog, Medium 20 mesh to fine. A hard, fired kaolin clay which is crushed to various mesh sizes and added to throwing and sculpture bodies to increase working strength and to reduce shrinkage. Also aids in drying for larger pieces of unusual thickness. Gray-white colour.
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| Grog, Coarse 20 to 48 mesh. A hard, fired kaolin clay which is crushed to various mesh sizes and added to throwing and sculpture bodies to increase working strength and to reduce shrinkage. Also aids in drying for larger pieces of unusual thickness. Gray-white colour.
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| Kaolin, Calcined - Ajax P A substitute for regular kaolin that will reduce shrinkage in glazes.
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| Kaolin, Edgar Plastic Also known as china clay. A plastic primary clay used in glazes and clay bodies.
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| Kaolin, Grolleg A blended English china clay, combining moderate plasticity, low titania content and relatively high flux content, low shrinkage and white fired color. It is excellent for making translucent throwing or casting porcelains.
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| Kaolin, Helmer Used in clay bodies for wood firing. Produces very rich and beautiful flashing in the wood fired environment.
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| Kaolin, 6 Tile 6 Tile is an air floated kaolin with bright firing properties yet highly plastic. It thus offers high green strength for superior jiggering and wet processing properties.
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| Ravenscrag Slip Clay It is possible to use it 100% to create a silky to glossy glaze at cone 10 because it contains all the feldspar, silica and clay needed which are supplied in majority from the natural clay. It imparts beautiful working properties to the glaze slurry: it suspends it and improves evenness of application, drying speed, and reduces shrinkage which assists in multi-layering.
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| Redart Clay An earthenware clay that fires to a rich red at 02 and a dark red by cone 1. Can be used in clays and glazes.
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