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color of black mountain clay

updated wed 24 apr 02

 

Carolyn Bronowski on mon 22 apr 02


A friend asked me to post these questions. Oxidation, ^6 black mountain
clay is what color? Reduction ^6 what is the color?

Thanks, Carolyn

Diane Winters on tue 23 apr 02


>A friend asked me to post these questions. Oxidation, ^6 black mountain
>clay is what color? Reduction ^6 what is the color?


^6 in oxidation it's a dark brown, slightly lighter than the cookie part of
an ice cream sandwich. I like it and used it as one of four unglazed
colored clays in a wet-cut mosaic ornamental paving piece in Anaheim. Have
never fired it in reduction.

Diane Winters
in Oakland/Berkeley where all the earthquake talk reminds me we've had
suspiciously little tremor activity here for a while now, and April IS
statistically one of our earthquake months - hope I don't bring one on with
such thoughts