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Ingredients

Ingredient Amount
Nepheline Syenite 15.00
Ball Clay 30.00
Cedar Heights Redart 5.00
Hawthorne Bond Fireclay 15.00
lizella 20.00
Silica 15.00
Add Amount
Grog 5.00

Instructions

This clay body is plastic and does very well with wheel-throwing and handbuilding techniques. The fired clay comes out a nice blush orange. To intensify the orange color, add more Lizella in substitution of ball clay. However, this will weaken the clay body’s plasticity. For ball clays, I generally use KT 1-4 but OM 4 is also great. As for grog, I have recently been using a combination of 100-mesh molochite and 48-mesh molochite. The raw clay can be seen on the handle and foot of the mug. Grog can be added in a range of 5-10%.

This recipe was shared by Amy Sanders in the September 2025 issue of Ceramics Monthly.

 

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