Clay Body Ceramics

Firing other brands of glazes on our clays will offer successful results as well but may vary in appearance mid high fire clays we manufacture mid high fire ap labeled ceramic clays in a variety of formulas for many different uses.

Clay body ceramics.

All three are available commercially in moist ready to use form. Each glaze has a different effect depending on the clay body you select. When a clay body is vitreous it means that water cannot be absorbed into the clay when it is fired to maturity. Lower fire ranges anywhere from cone 022 1087 degrees f to cone 2 2088 degrees f most popular firing range is cone 04 to 06.

Low firing pottery will not be waterproof unless it is glazed. The most common form. Technically ceramics are those things made from materials which are permanently changed when heated. Non clay materials can be added to bodies to enhance their workability or fired surface characteristics.

Common examples are earthenware porcelain and brick. Please read the details for each. The crystallinity of ceramic materials ranges from highly oriented to semi crystalline vitrified and often completely amorphous e g glasses. Mixing clay small to medium batches 500 to 20 000 grams there may come a time when you wish to test a new clay body recipe or to make a small amount of a special clay body such as a porcelain or a grit loaded clay body.

Grog paper sand and nylon fibers. Different clay bodies mature at different temperatures. Clay bodies can also be produced by mixing dry clays and additives with water to create your own desired clay body. A ceramic is any of the various hard brittle heat resistant and corrosion resistant materials made by shaping and then firing a nonmetallic mineral such as clay at a high temperature.

By mature we mean fired to the point for which they were formulated. It refers to the earthenware stoneware or porcelain that forms the piece as opposed to the engobe and covering glaze. Once heated fired to between 660 and 1470 f 350 and 800 c the clay is converted to ceramic and will never dissolve again. A term used by potters and in the ceramic industry.

Today we re going to talk about the most common clay additives. We carry just about every clay offered by standard ceramic supply one of the biggest most reliable go to brands in the world of commercial clays from low fire to high fire and everything in between including wood fire bodies flameware and more standard ceramic supply has a clay for you and we carry it. For example clay has chemically bonded water in it which will cause it to slake down disintegrate when a dried clay object is put in water. In general terms the higher a clay body is designed to fire the more vitreous it is.

The three most commonly used clay bodies are earthenware clay bodies mid fire stoneware clay bodies and high fire stoneware clay bodies. For potters and in industry the term clay is not specific enough thus the term body is used.