Raw Materials

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...

A fine, particled, lavender powder used as a colorant in glazes and slips. It is the most stable and reliable colorant. Produces various shades of ...

Donated to Cornell by Nan Zantal. All proceeds will go to supporting Sinclair Community College Students looking to attend workshops at Cornell. A ...

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...

Donated to Cornell by Nan Zantal. All proceeds will go to supporting Sinclair Community College Students looking to attend workshops at Cornell. A ...

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

A sodium-calcium-borate compound used as a low and mid-range glaze flux. This is a conglomerate mineral made up primarily of Colemanite, Ulexite an...

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...