Jerry on tue 30 aug 05
Hello--I used Newman Red (dry clay)from Laguna Clay to make terra
sigillata, with great results. Now Laguna doesn't carry this clay-- I
bought the substitute they offered but it just doesn't cut it.Does anyone
know where to get this clay, or any other bright,red orange dry clay? It
should be the brightest and most intensely colored red orange you ever saw.
Thanks alot for your help
Linda Blossom on tue 30 aug 05
I totally agree wth you - it is the best orange. You can get it from
Tuckers in Canada. The substitute is not really a substitute if you are
looking for the same characteristics. I wish Laguna would carry Newman red
again - it is mined and available. At least they could offer the dry clay to
us and not use it in their bodies.
Linda
Ithaca, NY
Hello--I used Newman Red (dry clay)from Laguna Clay to make terra
sigillata, with great results. Now Laguna doesn't carry this clay-- I
bought the substitute they offered but it just doesn't cut it.Does anyone
know where to get this clay, or any other bright,red orange dry clay? It
should be the brightest and most intensely colored red orange you ever saw.
Fredrick Paget on tue 30 aug 05
>Hello--I used Newman Red (dry clay)from Laguna Clay to make terra
>sigillata, with great results. Now Laguna doesn't carry this clay-- I
>bought the substitute they offered but it just doesn't cut it.Does anyone
>know where to get this clay, or any other bright,red orange dry clay? It
>should be the brightest and most intensely colored red orange you ever saw.
>Thanks alot for your help
Hi Jerry,
You don't say where you live but if it is California it shouldn't be
hard to find an outcrop of this kind of clay. I have found it all
over Marin county in various places. When ever they are digging I
like to check it out.
A couple of weeks ago I was walking back from the barber shop here in
Mill Valley and I spotted a big 10 ton dumpster in the street in
front of a neighbor's house. Laborers were bringing an intense red
orange clay out from behind a house through a narrow walkway and
filling up the dumpster. I took a double handful home to check it .
It was the best I have ever seen around here so I went back with a
wheelbarrow and got a couple of hundred pounds of it. (They have to
pay by weight to dump this so it is "take all you want").
It cleaned up beautifully. There is some fine sandy rock in it that
settled out of the slurry when I began to levigate it.( I save this
sandy residue and dry it and fire it to cone 04 and put it back in
the clay as temper). There was almost no rock or gravel and it fires
at cone 04 to a brilliant brick red.
--
From Fred Paget,
Marin County, CA, USA
fredrick@well.com
Charter Member Potters Council
Ron Roy on wed 31 aug 05
Hi Linda,
Newman is not currently available - Tuckers has stopped using it - problems
at the mine? I'm not sure. They keep saying it will be avilable soon but
they said it would be available now.
Does anyone know what the problems is?
RR
>I totally agree wth you - it is the best orange. You can get it from
>Tuckers in Canada. The substitute is not really a substitute if you are
>looking for the same characteristics. I wish Laguna would carry Newman red
>again - it is mined and available. At least they could offer the dry clay to
>us and not use it in their bodies.
>
>Linda
>Ithaca, NY
Ron Roy
RR#4
15084 Little Lake Road
Brighton, Ontario
Canada
K0K 1H0
Phone: 613-475-9544
Fax: 613-475-3513
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