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Ashraf Hanna Super White Raku Body PF520
Firing Range: 900°C - 1280°C
The very best white raku body on the market. With over 58% molochite, this body can withstand the most extreme thermal shock. This is due to both the high alumina plastic ball clay and the three different grades of molochite. This body has very low shrinkage, a medium texture and is highly resistant to warping and cracking.
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from £3.71 inc VAT
White Raku Clay
Firing Range: 1000°C-1280°C
The RAKU 5015 compound is a plastic, coarse, highly fireclayed building compound from the manufacturer Sibelco from Westerwald/D, which is ideal for Raku firing due to its high resistance to temperature changes. The clay body is stoneware and does not sinter due to the high proportion of fireclay. This body is ideal for all workpiece sizes.
Texture: 5
Fired...
from £4.25 inc VAT
Chocolate Black Clay 1130
Firing Range: 1040°C-1120°C
Chocolate Black fires to produce a warm brown-black at earthenware temperatures, which becomes a more intense black when glazed. High pigment levels restrict the firing of this clay to a recommended range of 1040°C-1120°C.
This body is highly thixotropic. It may seem very firm straight from the bag but will soften.
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from £2.77 inc VAT
Low Fire White Earthenware Smooth VBP1
Firing Range: 1080°C-1160°C
An off white clay with a wide firing range. Suitable for throwing, model making and slab building.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture: 1
Fired Colour: Off White
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C: 9.00
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: N/A
from £3.01 inc VAT
Marbled Surprise Clay K120
Firing Range: 1120°C-1150°C
Interesting marbled body, smooth texture, suitable for both hand building and firing.
Texture: 3
Fired Colour: Marbled Buff, Black, Red
% Total Shrinkage at 1150°C: 12
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
from £4.08 inc VAT
Rose Terracotta Clay
Firing Range: 1040°C-1140°C
Smooth earthenware body, starting from a light rose colour at the lower temperature range, turning more terracotta at the top end. Good for hand building.
Texture: 1
Fired Colour: Rose/Terracotta
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: 6.5
Fired colour:
1040°C - Rose
1100°C - Terracotta
1140°C - Brown
from £3.30 inc VAT
Sanded White Earthenware Clay 1141-30
Firing Range: 1100°C-1240°C
General purpose white earthenware body of exceptional handling properties arising from the inclusion of white sand/grog into the plastic LT25 base. Throws well and suitable for larger pots also.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture: 3
Fired Colour: White
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C: 9
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from £2.78 inc VAT
Sculptural Terracotta GVRS
Firing Range: 1080°C-1220°C
A newly developed clay containing a good degree of medium to coarse grogg. Gives open texture yet retaining a good degree of plasticity and has good resistance to thermal shock. Suitable for large sculptural work, gardenware, slab work etc. Good for modelling and hand building.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture:...
from £2.89 inc VAT
Smooth Black Earthenware Throwing Clay
Firing Range: 1000°C-1150°C
K 144 is a black earthenware body. It's smooth texture makes it ideal for throwing. The final fired colour ranges from dark brown at 1040°C through to black at 1140°C
Texture: 1
Fired Colour: Brown-Black
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C: 13.5
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: N/A
from £3.00 inc VAT
Smooth Body T.S Flax Paper Clay E-S200
Firing Range: 900°C-1280°C
Scarva FLAXpaperCLAY is very versatile, strong and flexible at all stages of the making process. Its reinforcing property with the flax fibre content allows the clay to be stretched without tearing. The fibres also seem to add tremendous strength to the sculpture as it dries and this gives a much greater handling ability before firing.
• Incredibly strong...
from £3.76 inc VAT
Smooth Red Terracotta VR
Firing Range: 1080°C - 1180°C
An extremely popular general purpose clay based on a blend of Etruria Marls. Good for throwing, modelling and casting.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture: 5
Fired Colour: Light-Dark Red
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C: 12.30
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: N/A
from £2.85 inc VAT
Smooth White Earthenware Clay LTW
Firing Range: 1060°C-1160°C
Wide firing range white earthenware. Suitable for throwing, model-making and casting. Designed to give a good glaze fit with earthenware glazes. Smooth Texture.
Texture: 1
Fired Colour: White/Ivory
% Total Shrinkage: 9.1
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Standard Smooth Red Terracotta 1137
Firing Range: 1040°C-1170°C
Highly plastic blend of red marls giving a good colour and high fired strength. Attractively priced.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture: 1
Fired Colour: Red Brown
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C: 10
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: N/A
from £2.08 inc VAT
Standard White Earthenware Smooth VBP3
Firing Range: 1080°C-1180°C
This body produces and excellent casting slip and gives good green fired strength. Suitable for once-firing.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture: 1
Fired Colour: White
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C: 10
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: N/A
from £3.09 inc VAT
Superwhite Earthenware PF580
Firing Range: 1080°C-1180°C
At last! Superwhite Earthenware, a white earthenware which throws as well as the best stoneware clays. A blend of carefully graded ball clays gives this clay body outstanding plasticity and strength. Being smooth, strong and very plastic, Superwhite Earthenware, is ideal for all production techniques including throwing, pressing and jigger and jollying.
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Terracotta 10% Sanded Red GVR10
Firing Range: 1080°C-1180°C
The VR terracotta with 10% addition of 40’s - 90’s sand, improves strength in throwing and increases resistance to cracking and warping especially on larger pieces. Used for throwing, hand -building, modelling & tiles.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture: 6
Fired Colour: Light-Dark Red
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from £2.83 inc VAT
Terracotta 20% Sanded Red GVR20
Firing Range: 1080°C-1180°C
The VR terracotta with 20% addition of 40’s - 90’s sand, improves strength in throwing and increases resistance to cracking and warping especially on larger pieces. Used for throwing, hand -building and modelling.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture: 7
Fired Colour: Light-Dark...
from £2.80 inc VAT
Terracotta Body T.S Flax Paper Clay E-S800
Firing Range: 1080°C-1180°C
Scarva FLAXpaperCLAY is very versatile, strong and flexible at all stages of the making process. Its reinforcing property with the flax fibre content allows the clay to be stretched without tearing. The fibres also seem to add tremendous strength to the sculpture as it dries and this gives a much greater handling ability before firing.
Scarva FLAXpaperCLAY...
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White Earthenware Clay 1141
Firing Range: 1100°C-1220°C
Known for many years as LT25, it is a very plastic white earthenware clay designed primarily for throwing. Firing to an ivory-white it offers good green strength.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture: 1
Fired Colour: White
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C: 9
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: 14
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White Earthenware Grogged VBP2
Firing Range: 1080°C - 1180°C
This new grogged white earthenware is suitable for larger work containing an addition of white grogg increasing resistance to cracking and warping.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture: 1
Fired Colour: White
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C: 10
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: N/A
from £3.03 inc VAT
White Earthenware Smooth Throwing Clay CWE
Firing Range: 1080°C-1160°C
CWE is a newly developed white earthenware clay containing highly plastic ball clays and china clays. It has superb throwing capabilities and is suitable for slab building. Good for throwing, modelling, and slab building.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture: 1
Fired Colour: Off White
% Total Shrinkage...
from £3.11 inc VAT
White Earthenware T.S Flax Paper Clay E-S400
Firing Range: 1080°C-1180°C
Scarva FLAXpaperCLAY is very versatile, strong and flexible at all stages of the making process. Its reinforcing property with the flax fibre content allows the clay to be stretched without tearing. The fibres also seem to add tremendous strength to the sculpture as it dries and this gives a much greater handling ability before firing.
Scarva FLAXpaperCLAY...
from £3.75 inc VAT
Bath Stone Grogged Stoneware
Bath Stone Stoneware is a plastic, coarse, that burns out pink to yellow and cream. Because of its high fireclay there is no sintering temperature. This clay is ideal for large workpieces such as sculptures.
Firing Range: 1000°C-1280°C
Texture: 7
Fired Colour: Pink through to beige at stonware
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: 3.5
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Black Hand Building Clay 2005
Firing Range: 1000°C-1240°C
Finely grogged black hand building clay, suitable for small sculpture work. Also suitable for throwing. Becomes darker the higher you fire, must be fired to at least 1200°C to become black.
Texture: 2
Fired Colour: Black
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: 7.5
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
from £3.20 inc VAT
Black Sculptural Crank Clay
Firing Range: 1000°C-1200°C
A heavily grogged black stonware clay perfect for hand building and sculpture. Good characteristics in drying and firing resistance because of the special chamotte mixture; in particular for big items. Good for handbuilding and slab work and sculptural due to the addition of a coarse grog. From dark brown at 1150°C and becomes fully black at 1190°C.
Texture:...
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Buff Airdrying Clay
These clays are a mixture of nylon fibres and our plastic clays and are ideal for making clay models without the use of kilns. Once dry models can be painted and varnished with acrylic paints.
1140-1260degC
from £2.50 inc VAT
Creative Air Hardening Clay Red 1188
Firing Range: 1000°c to 1280°c
1188 Potclays' CREATIVE CLAY red Creative clay is an air-drying clay developed using the highest quality materials available Essentially a standard potters modelling clay with an addition of nylon fibres to provide exceptional bonded strength when dry and unfired. These nylon reinforcing fibres are an excellent bonding agent which reduces brittleness and...
from £2.77 inc VAT
Granite Grey Stoneware WMS2502
Firing Range: 1200°C-1280°C
Smooth light grey body with a dark speckle. Good for throwing and handbuilding.
Texture: 1
Fired Colour: Light Grey
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: 5.5
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
from £3.78 inc VAT
Grogged Buff Stoneware Clay CCBG
Firing Range: 1200°C-1260°C
A very popular grey general purpose, throwing and modelling clay. Many schools use this as an all purpose stoneware clay with 10% grog. A dual purpose clay, fine texture that can be used as earthenware firing to pleasant yellow/buff colour progressing to a darker grey with slight speckling at stoneware temperatures.
Texture: 7
Fired Colour: Buff
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from £2.08 inc VAT
High Fire Terracotta Clay 4005
Firing Range: 1000°C-1200°C
High temperature terracotta, becomes darker the higher you fire, particularly good for throwing and handbuilding.
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
Texture: 3-4
Fired Colour: Light To Dark Terracotta
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C: N/A
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C: 6
from £3.60 inc VAT
