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Supplies for Potters, Basket Weavers, and Teachers
Boones
Creek Potter's Gallery
carries a
wide variety of clay, glazes, kiln shelves, and basket weaving
materials. Although we do not carry in stock pottery wheels,
kilns, and furniture, we special order high-quality Excel
kilns and furniture kits as well as potter's wheels and tools.
Excel kilns are designed for high and low-fire work and are of
excellent quality and dependability. We pay shipping and you
will find our prices are below retail. Special orders can
usually be filled in a week. We are always happy to assist you
in selecting those items you need and invoice non-profit and
educational institutions.
Basket Weaving Supplies
We have
the largest selection of basket weaving supplies in the area
including various sizes of high-quality flat, round, and flat
oval reeds; spline, sea grass, paper rush, and round, oval,
and D-handles as well as instructional books. You will be
pleased with our large selection and the quality of our
weaving products.
Glazes
We also
carry a wide variety of AMACO lead-free glazes. We are always
adding new glazes to our stock. Please call for current glaze
colors and princes
Clay Information
We carry
a wide variety of Standard Ceramic moist clays and a limited
selection of dry clays. All clays formulas are certified by
the Art and Creative Materials Institute as non-toxic and
contain no materials in sufficient qualities to be toxic or
injurious to humans or to cause acute chronic health problems.
Below is a list of the moist clays in stock. We will work with
our customers to secure particular clays not listed. We
deliver at reasonable rates clay to schools and potters within
a hundred mile range.
CLAY PRICES (Spring-Fall 2004-05)
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25 lbs |
.54 per lb |
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50 - 75 lbs |
.51 per lb |
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100 - 475 lbs |
.36 per lb |
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500 - 975 lbs |
.32 per lb |
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1000 - 1975 lbs |
.29 per lb |
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2000 -Up lbs |
.25 per lb |
910 Self Hardening Clay Hardens without Firing .82 per
lb Minimum Purchase 5 lbs
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TYPE |
Description
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Cone |
Notes |
Shrinkage
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Absorption
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103 |
Red Clay |
06-2 |
A low fire plastic terra cotta body designed for the
classroom. Traditional terracotta color at cones 06
oxidation. Deeper brick red at cone 2. |
9% @ C 06
14% @ C2 |
12%
6% |
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104 |
Red Clay with Grog |
06-4 |
Versatile clay containing fine grog. Excellent for hand
building, slab work, throwing and sculpturing.
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9% @ C 06
11% @ C 4 |
13.2%
3% |
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105 |
White Clay |
06-04 |
Plastic low fire smooth body. Good for classroom use with low
fire, lead free glazes. |
6% @ 06
6.5 @ 04 |
15.5%
14.5% |
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112 |
Brown Clay |
4-6
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A plastic clay for wheel or modeling. The addition of granular
manganese gives a speckled surface. Best color results
from using cone five. Good results may be expected in
reduction or oxidation firing. |
12% @ 4
12.5% @6 |
4.5%
2.5% |
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130 |
Porcelain Clay |
7-9 |
A white firing, high temperature plastic body. Very fine white
porcelain grog enhances strength and throwability.
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10% @ 7
12% @ 9 |
.75%
0.5 % |
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153 |
Stoneware Clay |
4-10 |
A soft warm beige in oxidation—a rich gray brown in reduction.
Responds well to all techniques. Excellent for the
production potter and classroom use. |
11% @ 4
13% @ 10 |
6%
2% |
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181 |
White Stoneware Body |
6-8 |
An excellent, very smooth white stoneware body. It contains no
fire clay |
13% @6
13.5 @ 8 |
2.8%
2.4% |
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182 |
White Stoneware Body |
4-8 |
Near white plastic stoneware body. Good for use with bright
glazes. |
10% @ C 4
11% @ C 8 |
6%
3% |
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194 |
Raku |
06 |
Specially formulated for Raku firing; contains sand.
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5% |
17.4% |
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257 |
Grolleg Porcelain |
8-10 |
A porcelain body with a parian like quality. It’s white and
tight and translucent when thin. Contains no ball clay.
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13% @ C8
10% @ C 10 |
1.0%
.65% |
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259 |
Stoneware |
4-10 |
Similar to 153 but with richer colors |
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5.3% |
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306 |
Brown Firing Clay |
4-6 |
Smooth throwing body. Orange-brown in reduction. Muted orange
to to cone 4 oxidation.
Gary at cone 10 oxidation |
11% @ C4
13% @ C10 |
4.0%
1.0% |
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308 |
Brooklyn Red |
4-8 |
Red Stoneware with sand and grog. Oxidation firing yields red
at cone 4 and deep sand at cone 8. |
12% @ C4
13% @ C8 |
2.5%
1.0% |
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417 |
Mojalica |
02
05
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A low fire body that contains fire clay and a small amount of
fine grog. Good for Majolica technique. Superior
throwing body. Excellent for classroom use. |
11% @ 02
6% @ 06 |
1.0% |
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