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WD Soda Firing Body 1200-1300C
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A strong, white firing clay blend designed for soda firing.This clay body was developed by our late Works Manager, Mark Winkle, in collaboration with esteemed soda-firing potter, Anthony Dix.
- Recommended firing range 1200-1300°C / Cone 5 to 11
- Indicative texture 2 (Smooth 1-Coarse 10)
- Indicative % Total Contraction @ 1100°C 10%; 1200C 12%*
From Contemporary Ceramics:-
Anthony has been making pots for over forty years following a BA at Cardiff University, where he had the opportunity to build a salt kiln and learned to throw. These two things have been central to his making ever since. He returned to Cardiff to complete an MA twenty years ago and focused on rekindling his love of vapour glazing. He switched to soda firing when it was no longer possible to salt glaze at Cardiff.
He developed his functional work considering divine proportion and surfaces through the soda kiln. Anthony’s pots are influenced by spirals in nature, and the functionality of utilitarian architecture revealed in its external appearance. He combines taught thrown forms which are sometimes enclosed and distorted with spiral textured handles that are either allowed to unfurl as they dry, or are cut to form handles. These are exploited by the soda in the kiln revealing details which would be lost by other glaze processes.
The set-up of Anthony’s workshop is small scale and his soda kiln is an old electric kiln re-lined and fired with propane gas. It is relatively small but allows for the intensity of the orange peel surface he desires in his work. Anthony is committed to making work for the use and enjoyment of people coming together to share food.
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Please note our clay is sold by approximate weight. Your total order weight for a specific clay body will be despatched in the most economic combination of packs possible. If you require individual packs of a specific size, please state this in the Special Instructions during checkout.
To comply with RHA regulations concerning tail-lift deliveries (where there is no fork-lift truck available at the delivery point) the maximum net weight of clay we are now permitted to pack on standard pallet is 950kg (76 x 12.5kg bags of clay). To achieve the best price for your clay, please add the full 1000kg to your cart when checking out and we will make the necessary weight adjustment/refund when we receive the order.
We have added cone numbers to our firing ranges for guidance purposes. Please refer to the 60c/hr column for large regular or self-supporting cones on the Orton Cones Conversion Chart which can be downloaded here.
* You can find typical shrinkage data in the CLAY ANALYSES chart which is available for download from this link: https://www.potclays.co.uk/Technical-Information. These figures are taken from tests performed under laboratory conditions and are intended for guidance only. For this reason, it is always recommended to also run shrinkage tests in your own application.
Technical data is approximate and provided for guidance only. Our Clay Analyses sheet can be downloaded here.
Credit to: Izzy Letty izzylettyceramics.com
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