Raw Materials

Substitute for Spodumene. A source of lithia, which is a flux, that helps to develop copper blue tone glazes. Can replace feldspar and also reduces...

A black powder which gives red, brown, purple or black tones to clay bodies and glazes. A strong flux when added in large amounts to clay bodies.

Used with other frits and raw materials at Cone 06 to Cone 01. Melting Range 1600°.

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 ...

Opaque glaze in the Laguna Cone 5 Dry Glaze Series.

Important opacifier. Often used in glaze to affect acid resistance, color and texture.

Similar to calcium. Also used as barium carbonate substitute.

This is classified as a Dark Rutile. This is the same mineral as the ceramic grade rutile but this has not been calcined.

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...

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...

Grog is a hard-fired clay crushed to various mesh sizes. It may be added to clays for tactile and visual texture. It can aid in opening the body fo...

This is an active flux which serves an important function as a deflocculant in preparing liquid slip. It increases strength and workability and red...

A high calcium/sodium, low alumina frit for Cone 06. Often used in crystal glazes. High expansion. Melting Range 1600°. 

Grog is a hard-fired clay crushed to various mesh sizes. It may be added to clays for tactile and visual texture. It can aid in opening the body fo...

A blended English china clay, combining moderate plasticity, low titania content and relatively high flux content, low shrinkage and white fired co...

A high alumina/boron low calcium frit for Cone 06-01. Primarily used in art ware, hobby, and tile glazes. Alkaline, alumina borosilicate. Melting R...

Very fluid, clear Cone 06 frit. Melting Range 1500°.

A versatile colorant used in glazes to most commonly produce various green tints.

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 weaker form of iron—high clay content.

Ultracal 30 plaster is a gypsum cement specially formulated for close tolerance tooling. It features exceptional surface hardness and accuracy, as ...

81% Fe2O3 , this imported, natural iron oxide is bright red in its raw form.

Grog is a hard-fired clay crushed to various mesh sizes. It may be added to clays for tactile and visual texture. It can aid in opening the body fo...

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