Raw Materials

Through years of formulation and reformulation, Karl Miller developed Albany Slip Substitute which is intended to reproduce the physical and perfor...

2 lb Minimum order Alberta Slip is an excellent substitute for the very popular Albany Slip, which has not been mined for over a decade. Like class...

Hydrated alumina is a fine granular white powder that is typically added to glazes as a source of alumina.  Hydrated aluminas are fine granular whi...

Safety Data Melting Point 650°C It can be used in combination with rutile and titanium as a yellow body stain, and frequently is used in glass as ...

This is the main source of barium oxide in glazes where it functions as a flux and assists in producing matte finishes. It is also used to neutrali...

This is a blend of minerals that closely simulates Barnard (Blackbird) Clay, a widely used clay that contains iron and manganese.

A very fine-grained plastic clay of volcanic origin containing colloidal matter. Used in small amounts as an additive to clays to aid in plasticity...

This is the oldest glaze colorant known. It is a strong flux and will produce fluid glazes. Can produce copper reds in reduction firings. TOXIC IN ...

Ferric oxide. Produces various shades of brown or green when used as a glaze colorant or decorative oxide. In high fire matt glazes, iron oxide and...

Black nickel produces browns, blues, grays and yellows in glazes. It can also tone down more intense colorants such as cobalt and copper. Maximum ...

An important source of calcium phosphate made from calcined cattle bones. Real bone ash is chemically inert and free of organic matters. Calcium ac...

A water soluble, low temperature flux which lowers the fusion point of glazes and promotes a smooth melt. A source of sodium and boric oxide in gla...

H3BO3 or B2O3.3H2O  Boric acid is a water-soluble boron mineral. Boric Acid is used as a B2O3 source in the formulation of frits and glazes. Ty...

CaCO3 This is the most common source of calcium in glazes. It is a high temperature flux that gives durability and hardness to glazes. Whiting 325 ...

Cedar Heights Gold Art is a selectively mined, plastic stoneware clay which is airfloated to 200 mesh particle size. It offers excellent working pr...

An organic cellulose gum which functions as a thickener, binder, and suspending agent in glazes. Can also be used as a binding agent for glass powd...

Co3O4, CoO A reliable, stable, black powdered oxide. In small amounts it produces consistently strong blue tones. Used as a glaze colorant and bru...

A green powder used as a glaze colorant. Depending on conditions and formulation it may produce green, blue-green or copper red. TOXIC IN RAW FORM ...

This Cornish Stone substitute is a calcium feldspar mineral used as a major constituent of glazes, and occasionally as a flux in bodies. Cornwall S...

Darvan 7 is a high molecular weight, long-chain polymer used as a dispersing agent, or deflocculant, in ceramic bodies and glues, offering advantag...

Darvan 811 can be used for stoneware, high fire slips and red low fire slips. It is a liquid alternative to the long popular sodium silicate.

A very plastic magnesium clay containing colloidal matter which in small amounts lends plasticity to a clay body. Also used as a suspending agent i...

A secondary water washed kaolin mined in Florida. It is fairly plastic and very white firing compared with most other American kaolins. It has exce...