Raw Materials

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...

The Standard 112 Speckled Brown Clay is a plastic clay for wheel throwing and handbuilding. Manganese gives off speckling surface. This clay delive...

A soft warm beige in oxidation, rich gray brown in reduction. Responds well to all techniques. Excellent for production potters and classroom use. ...

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...

A stoneware clay blended from several deposits to maintain consistent chemistry.  Foundry Hill Cream is similar to a ball clay in that it is highl...

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

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

Calcium Borate source used with other frits for low cost pottery glazes from Cone 06 to Cone 01. Melting Range 1450°. WE DO NOT SHIP 50# BAGS  

Very fluid, clear Cone 06 frit. Melting Range 1500° WE DO NOT SHIP 50# BAGS

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...

High barium frit. Use caution in glazes for functional surfaces.   WE DO NOT SHIP 50# BAGS

Most often used as a specking agent in clays.

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...

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...

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...

Produces grey brown colors in engobes and in underglazes that include zinc. If tin is present it may produce pink and reddish browns. Can also be a...

A fine-grained ball clay with excellent plasticity and strength. Old Mine #4 is an "industry standard" based on its popularity in both casting and ...

A refractory material used to reduce shrinkage in clay bodies. Because of its interlocking crystal structure it also gives strength to clay bodies. 

It is a source of Lithia for glazes. A strong flux, beginning to aid in the melting of glazes at 1472°F. Used extensively as a secondary flux in le...