Low Fire Clay Recipes
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Welcome to the Kiln Goddess' Clay Pit of Low Fire Clay. It is a small but growing lens. Please, if you know of any low fire recipe sites please suggest them in my guestbook.
Earthenware
Cone 06-3 (1850°-2135°F)
Earthenware has been used for centuries by man to make decorative and functional objects. Although softer and more breakable than its stoneware counterpart, it is a wonderful clay medium.
Earthenware has been used for centuries by man to make decorative and functional objects. Although softer and more breakable than its stoneware counterpart, it is a wonderful clay medium.
Earthenware
- Low Fire Bodies
- Advantages and disadvantages of use low fire clays.
- Arbuckle Earthenware Clay Bodies
- About earthenware bodies.
- Low Fire White Talc Casting Body Recipe
- Discussion about talc casting bodies and a sample recipe.
Great Earthenware Books on Amazon
Terra Cotta
Looking for terra cotta recipes got any to share? Found any links to some? Love to have them, please post your site suggestions or recipes in my guestbook. thanks :)
Great Terra Cotta Books on Amazon
About Raku
Raku clay is generally actually a heavily grogged higher firing clay. Although raku is fired at relativily lower temps raku clay itself often can be fired much higher. The raku clay I used in college could actually be fired to cone 10 and often was. The heavily grogged clay is much more resistant to thermal shock than a smooth clay body as raku needs a clay that can be heated up rather rapidly and cooled down by placing in a bucket of water.
Raku Clay
- Paul's Raku "Recipe"
- Clay recipe and raku suggestions.
Great Raku Books on Amazon
Helpful Resources
- Pyrometric Cones (Orton Standard) Temperature Equivalent Chart
- What cone is your clay? What cone is your glaze? What does this mean?
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Suggestions and Feedback
I welcome your feedback. Would you like something added? Know a good link or book? Did I manage to misspell something? Did you find a dead link? Let me know, afterall this Kiln Goddess isn't all knowing ;-)
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bloomingrose
Dec 4, 2011 @ 7:20 pm | delete
- I wonder if you know of a clay that can be baked in the oven - I saw an old copy of Profitable Hobbies that showed a lady baking a pot using her own oven.
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KilnGoddess
Dec 13, 2011 @ 1:38 am | delete
- I do not know of any oven bakable clay that would be safe to use for functional pottery, low fire clays usually need to be fired to 1800 F degrees, even a pitfire(like how the native americans fired pots) can reach 1600 F degrees. Polymer clay like fimo or sculpty can be baked in an oven but the resulting work would not be food safe.
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