Sold in 25 lb increments White Earthenware Sculpture Clay our White Earthenware Sculpture Clay (WES) is ideal for large-scale sculptures, offering excellent durability and stability to prevent warping and cracking. Sold in 25-pound increments, it features a smooth texture and pure white color, ensuring detailed craftsmanship and a refined finish. Compatible with all low-fire glazes (Amaco, Duncan, Mayco), it fires best at Cone 04, making it a versatile choice for impressive, long-lasting sculptures. Sold in 25lb bag. CONE: 04 SHRINKAGE 8% ABSORPTION: 15.1% PENTROMETERS: 4 soft A new Clay from New Mexico Clay WES (Clay description by James Marshal)White Earthenware Sculpture is a tough, resilient, and forgiving low fire, cone 04, white earthenware clay body. Excellent for all hand building techniques and ideally suited for the construction of large sculptural forms, it also works quite well for small and medium sized work. Plasticity increases with water content, while rigidity and reduced shrinkage and warpage with slabwork is accomplished through a dryer mix. Particle size allows for easy rewetting, low warping, and quick drying. Due to its high talc content glaze fit for commercial low fire glazes is good. Surface tooling and carving are easily executed and smoothing with ribs results in a very smooth, tight surface. Kiln shrinkage tests: at cone o4 WES is shrinking about 7 percent. I put a flat slab in to check on warpage, the slab was straight when it went in and it moved ever so slightly, but I surmise that the slab did some moving due to the making of it, ie rolling the slab.
