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🏁 Technique Spotlight 🏁 We've been seeing the fruits of the nerikomi class's labor coming out of the kilns recently! 🏁 Nerikomi is a challenging technique in which colored clays are strategically layered and pressed together to make repeating patterns throughout the clay 🏁 We can't wait to what else the nerikomi homies come up with! 🏁

We want to share that there has been a change that may affect clays you use here at Claymakers. Commercial clays are made of mined materials, and that those natural resources can vary over time. Redart, a red clay material, is being mined from a new seam may cause variation in the fired color of clay bodies that contain it.

Standard Clay shares the following information:
" While the physical properties of the clay remain within our acceptable specifications, changes in raw material chemistry and mineral composition may influence glaze interaction and final fired appearance. This change may or may not affect your production. We recommend customers perform production testing to confirm glaze fit, surface response, and finished fired color prior to use in regular manufacturing. Hopefully this is a short-term change and the bodies will be back to normal in the near future. We appreciate your understanding and will provide updates as additional information becomes available."

This affects the following Standard clays that we carry: 112, 214, 378, 547

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