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Cone 6 White porcelain. Wins most vitrified award. Super smooth and creamy. Glazes are bright and brilliant on this clay. Great if you are staining clay bodies with mason stains or oxides (Nerikomi/Agateware).
Cone 6 Shrinkage 13.0% Absorption 0.3%

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Gray (White) Stoneware. This is the clay we used to provide in the communal buckets. Contains fire clay and mullite which (supposedly) enhances thermal properties. Fires grayish and the fired unglazed clay looks like white stoneware at cone ten. This is a good clay for beginners because the grog in the clay helps prevent cracking during drying.  Some people have experienced bloating issues with this clay body.

Cone 6 Shrinkage 13.0% Absorption 1.5%

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Ivory (White) Stoneware.
A very smooth, plastic throwing body. This clay doesn’t have grog so it is more prone to cracking during drying, dry slowly to avoid this, not having grog allows you to sponge smooth

Last Friday’s Zoom topic is on for today. Betty Woodman!

Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Betty Woodman attended the School for American Craftsmen at Alfred University in New York from 1948 to 1950. She has taught in the Fine Arts Department of the University of Colorado.

A leading ceramist whose inventive forms and painterly use of color have won her international renown, Woodman began her career making simple functional pottery. Although her ambitious experiments with clay have wrought great changes in her work, it still refers to some practical function even if her baroque, expressive forms are no longer strictly utilitarian. Woodman's art has been inspired by diverse sources, ranging from Etruscan and Minoa to Tange and majolica ceramics.

The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1980 and 1986, Woodman has also been a guest artist at the experimental atelier of the Manufacture National de Sevres in France.

How are you doing these days? Sorry for not being around as I was supposed to, but I dedicated this week to the duties of my life. I had a very busy times with Le studio, clients starting to coming and it is so exciting… and also I passed my driver’s license test

Do you remember the perfect corner for reading? Well, it looks like the hanging chairs become quite popular these days. I personally like it a lot (and based on the comments that I received – so do you) and I think that it will be great to have one in my home office. And usually these hanging chairs are outdoor furniture, but because the summer is ending why not just bring them inside.   I’m always happy to browse the new home-ware catalogue by French Connection. I found there some pretty amazing stuff and the style is always so recognizable. Probably none of us is surprised that the popular fashion brand also created a pretty fall home collection, because we all know there is a tight connection between the trends in the fashion and those of the interiors.   The new autumn catalogue is different this time. It is much darker, relies on the earth natural

I decided to step away for a while from my daily routine of searching for furniture.

The home of stylist and photographer Daniella Wittе is wonderful and very inspiring, just like everything that Daniella does

The amazing Lotta Agaton styled these pictures for Therese Sennerholt and her wonderful new collection of notebook.