We stock a wide range of over 100 different clays, ready to use straight from the bag. All of our clays come with bulk discount pricing too, so the more you buy, the less per kg you pay.
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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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Raku Clay 1154
Firing Range: 900°C-1300°C
Designed for those producing large sculptural forms intended for either raku or stoneware firing, it contains coarse textured grogs which produce a pronounced fleck when fired to stoneware. Offering superb thermal shock resistance and low shrinkage it is easily the best raku body.
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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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CWE White Earthenware Smooth Throwing Clay
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...
Low Fire White Earthenware Smooth VBP1
Firing Range: 1080°C-1160°C
An off white clay with a wide firing range. Suitable for throwing, machine making and slab building. Good for throwing, modelling and slab building.
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Texture - 1
Fired Colour - Off White
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C - 9.00
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C - N/A
LTW White Earthenware Clay
Firing Range: 1060°C-1160°C
Wide firring range white earthenware. Suitable for throwing, machine-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
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
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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
For more information on this clay, please follow this link: Technical Data
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1040°C -...
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.
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Texture - 3
Fired Colour - White
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C - 9
% Total...
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.
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Smooth Body T.S Flax Paper Clay E-S200
Firing Range: 900°C-1280°C
Scarva FLAXpaperCLAY allows the potter to be more of an artist and less of a technician.
• Incredibly strong slabs - even extra thin slabs will fold, bend and drape without tearing.
• Extra large or thick forms hold up under their own weight.
• Greenware re-wets easily and evenly allowing you to re-work, alter or add new clay at any stage of dryness.
It...
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.
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Texture - 5
Fired Colour - Light-Dark Red
% Total Shrinkage at 1100°C - 12.30
% Total Shrinkage at 1200°C - N/A
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
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
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.
For...
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...
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 Red
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Terracotta Body T.S Flax Paper Clay E-S800
Firing Range: 1080°C-1180°C
Scarva FLAXpaperCLAY allows the potter to be more of an artist and less of a technician.
• Incredibly strong slabs - even extra thin slabs will fold, bend and drape without tearing.
• Extra large or thick forms hold up under their own weight.
• Greenware re-wets easily and evenly allowing you to re-work, alter or add new clay at any stage of...
White Earthenware Clay 1141 LT25
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
White Earthenware T.S Flax Paper Clay E-S400
Firing Range: 1080°C-1180°C
Scarva FLAXpaperCLAY allows the potter to be more of an artist and less of a technician.
• Incredibly strong slabs - even extra thin slabs will fold, bend and drape without tearing.
• Extra large or thick forms hold up under their own weight.
• Greenware re-wets easily and evenly allowing you to re-work, alter or add new clay at any stage of...
Alumina Hydrate
Alumina Hydrate
AT Hymod Ball Clay
AT Hymod Ball Clay
Barium Carbonate
Used in casting slips (up to 5%)to prevent scumming arising from soluble salts. A flux in high temperature glazes. It also produces matt and semi matt surfaces at earthenware temperatures, but an excess will cause a rough, dry glaze surface.
Batt Wash
This product will prevent drops of glaze from sticking to the bottom of the kiln or the kiln shelves. The wash binds with the glaze to make a brittle material that can easily be scraped off. It is recommended that the shelves be coated with a new coat of wash before each firing.
Kiln shelves are quite expensive, so anything you can do to save them is well worth it!
It is made by mixing with...
Bentonite
Extremely plastic colloidal clay used in bodies(up to5%) to increase plasticity and in glaze (up to 2%) as a suspending agent. More than 3% can cause cracking of the unfired glaze layer due to the high drying shrinkage rate.
Bone Ash
A secondary flux in glazes and occasionally used as an opacifier. The essential constituent used to produce translucency in bone china bodies. Typically made from ground, calcined animal bones, bone ash is a source of calcium phosphate.
Analysis
Ca3(PO4) 2
Calcined Alumina
Calcined Alumina
Cellulose Fibre
Cellulose Fibre
China Clay
China Clay (kaolin)
A refractory, low plasticity white firing clay used widely in glazes and bodies as a source of alumina and silica.
When added to glazes it will stiffen and melt effectively increasing the firing range of the glaze.
Al203
SI02
Fe203
K/Na2O
36%
49%
0.83%
2.3%
Ciment Fondue (Grey)
Ideal for both casting and sculpting, Ciment Fondu is widely used by sculptors because it is extremely hard and quick setting and gives superb detail. Using Ciment Fondu and an stone aggregate for a concrete mix has replaced stone for certain types of work. Because it is cheap, hard, tough, and durable, it is particularly suitable for large outdoor projects, especially decorative wall surfaces and...
Coarse Silica Sand
Used as a grog or for ware placing.
Added to a body, they help glaze fit and make the body more refractory.
16-30 Mesh
Colemanite
A naturally occurring source of Boron. A powerful primary or secondary flux in glazes. It intensifies the effect of colouring oxides. It also increases craze resistance in glazes.
B203
CaO
SiO2
43.9%
26%
4.5%
Cornish Stone
Decomposed granite, used as a secondary flux in silica glazes and as an alternative to feldspar due to higher content. Low iron content. Gives good whiteness.
Al203
SI02
K2O
Na2O
15.3%
72.9%
3.8%
4%
Dolomite
Natural source of calcium and magnesium. Useful as a secondary flux in porcelain and stoneware glazes.
CaO3
MgO3
31.4%
20.8%
FFF Feldspar
A medium strength flux sufficing both body and glaze applications.
K20
Na2O
Al2O
SiO2
7.5%
5%
18.5%
67.5%
Fibreglass Chopped Stands 13mm
12mm
Fibreglass Strand also known as Chopped Strand or Choppies, is used to reinforce resin, plaster, cement and Jesmonite casts. Ideal for smaller items where scrim and fibreglass mat is too bulky or awkward to use.
Can be mixed heavily with resin to produce a putty like consistency, which can be applied to awkward areas more easily.
Fine Silica Sand
Used as a grog or for ware placing.
Added to a body, they help glaze fit and make the body more refractory.
60's Mesh
Firebrick Grog 0-5mm - 25kg
Firebrick Grog 0-5mm -25kg
Flint
Very refractory material used to provide silica in bodies and glazes. Increases firing temperature and craze resistance but reduces plasticity and shrinkage.
Analysis
SiO2
Gillespie Borate
Gillespie Borate
Also know as Gerstleys Borate
Raku, Earthenware, Stoneware and Porcelain -- Excellent over a wide temperature range from below cone 06 to cone 10
Special Effects -- Excellent glaze texture and activity for specialty glazes.
Colored Glazes -- GB works well with most pigments and has an exceptionally wide color palette.
Grog 80-Dust
Gives finer clays a useful bite.
Manufactured using calcined china clay which is a refractory white grog. Fine grades are used to reduce shrinkage of engobes and to increase resistance to thermal shock. Coarser grades are used in clay bodies such as Earthstone
Grade 80's - Dust
Grog Hi-Pur 5'S-Dust
Gives finer clays a useful bite.
Manufactured using calcined china clay which is a refractory white grog. Fine grades are used to reduce shrinkage of engobes and to increase resistance to thermal shock. Coarser grades are used in clay bodies such as Earthstone.
Grolleg China Clay
A refractory, medium plasticity white-firing clay used mainly in white earthenware, bone china and porcelain clay bodies.
A blended English china clay, combining moderate plasticity, low titania content and relatively high flux content, low shrinkage and blue-white fired color. The low Tio2 content is a key factor for the usefulness of Grolleg. It is excellent for making translucent throwing or...
HVAR Ball Clay
Low plasticity white-firing ball clay.
Whiter firing than TWVA (34061).
Popular in many stoneware bodies.
Hyplas 71 Ball Clay
High plasticity cream firing ball clay for pottery clay bodies.
Recommended for earthenware or stoneware body formulations.
Fires ivory buff colour.
Al203
SI02
Fe203
K/Na2O
20%
70%
0.8%
2.3%
Lead Bisilicate
LEAD BISILICATE
Lead Bisilicate fritting involves the melting together of glaze materials (some of which are soluble in water or stomach acids) to produce a combination which is insoluble (or relatively so).
Lead bisilicate is the frit generally used in low solubility glazes and standard borax frit for leadless glazes.
Low Sol.
Firing range 880°C -1050°C
% ANALYSIS
PbO = 65.04
Al2O3...