Min Posted November 5, 2022 Report Share Posted November 5, 2022 Starting a pinned thread on testing and working with wild clay as there seems to be a fair bit of interest in this. Few links discussing this below, please feel free to add info and experiences using wild or found clay. https://digitalfire.com/article/how+to+find+and+test+your+own+native+clays https://www.leelachakravarti.com/blog/wild-clay-top-tips-for-making-pottery https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/ceramics-monthly/ceramics-monthly-article/wild-clay-and-glaze (this one is behind a paywall but you can see 3 articles a month for free) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly in AK Posted November 9, 2022 Report Share Posted November 9, 2022 The article by Leela is nicely written, a great place to start if you've never done this before. A couple pictures from an expedition to Sheep Mountain, about two hours from Anchorage. A massive landslide the day before deposited a thick layer of clay right by the roadside. It was happy timing, we had planned a long hike up the mountain to get to a bed of kaolin that's documented there. It was very plastic, threw like a dream, and didn't even shrink that much. Unfortunately this clay was nowhere close to pure kaolin. At cone 03 it softened and expanded into a puffy marshmallow like consistency. The bowl in the back held a sample at cone 6. Bubbly foam. Min and glazenerd 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callie Beller Diesel Posted February 28 Report Share Posted February 28 Am making a post that links to discussions about wild clay, for easy reference purposes. Min and Kelly in AK 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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