Ceramics Brown Body

Published in studio takada by kaname and sumiko takada in the march 2017 issue of ceramics monthly.

Ceramics brown body.

A nice super smooth plastic body that fires a dark chocolate brown at cones 5 6. For best results fire slow. Under clear glazes iron containing clay bodies can show a very similar range of colors. This category is only assigned to rim sherds because similar body sherds could have also derived from vessel forms exhibiting coiled or corrugated treatments along the rim.

Our tiles are fired at the same temperature and glazed just like porcelain. The descriptions and instructions in each recipe will help you to determine if a clay body will be good for sculptural approaches hand building slip casting or wheel throwing techniques. A mid or high firing coarse grained clay body that can be anywhere between buff color to gray to dark brown because of varying levels of iron and other impurities. Temper consists of varied volcanic inclusions occurring naturally in the clay.

It is incredibly durable after firing with little to no absorption vitreous. Pastes tend to be tan brown to yellow red reflecting the consistent use of high iron clays. That s a lifetime of muddy paws stomping children cold snaps and everything else life can throw at it. Not many potters would challenge iron s place as the most important of the ceramic colorants.

Gives nice warmth to glazes giving that reduction look to them in oxidation. Iron s natural presence in most clay bodies produces clay colors ranging from light gray to deepest brown. We carry just about every clay offered by standard ceramic supply one of the biggest most reliable go to brands in the world of commercial clays from low fire to high fire and everything in between including wood fire bodies flameware and more standard ceramic supply has a clay for you and we carry it. Durabody ceramic tiles are made to last a lifetime while looking like the day they were installed.