Recipe for Homemade ClayLooking for a simple recipe for homemade clay? Find sample recipes here. Also, learn how to make homemade clay for your clay pot projects with a few simple tools .Clay recipes can get kind of complicated. If you've looked at many you've probably noticed a fair number of names like Goldart Stoneware, E.P.K. Kaolin, Flint, or Ball Clay, just to name a few. As with glaze, there are many, many ingredients that different potters use to achieve the type of clay that best suits their type of work. However, if we look at clays from a simpler perspective, we'll find that they are all made up of about 10 main ingredients. These are: The different ingredients will be listed either by weight, volume, or percentages. Sample RecipesA basic stoneware clay might look like this:55% Fire Clay By increasing the fluxes and decreasing the high-firing clays it could be designed for a lower firing temperature. For example: 45% Fire Clay These are just examples to give you an idea of how the ingredients can be adjusted to create different clay bodies. The key is to determine what you want to do with the clay. For example, if you want a white clay body you will likely use more Kaolin. If you wanted a clay with less shrinkage you would use talc in the recipe.
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