Mason 6088 Dark Red Stain Non Hardening Clay Made from the the below

Made from the the below mentioned recipe

Medium plastic and slight texture with a fairly high shrinkage rate

Binders are used in ceramics to harden unfired ceramic glazes

excellent throwing Raku clay reinforced with kyanite for exceptional thermal shock resistance

Smooth in texture

Mason 6088 Dark Red Stain Non Hardening Clay Made from the the belowStains are a mixture of ceramic oxides and coloring metal oxides that are melted in kilns, quenched, ground to specific mesh size (some are acid washed), and colored with organic dyes to simulate the fired color. Essentially they are fritted colorants. They are made and manufactured for several reasons: to provide a consistent and stable form of colorant that doesnt dissolve in the glaze melt as easily as coloring metal oxides; to make colorants safer